Posted on 01/10/2007 8:06:51 AM PST by meg88
It isn’t really a romance turned sour, because it was never sweet.
The American military’s cocky heroes were supposed to sweep in and carry off a poor, grateful Iraq to security and bliss, like Richard Gere did to Debra Winger in the finale of “An Officer and a Gentleman.”
Yet the search goes on, in this country obsessed with hookups and breakups, for the right relationship metaphor to describe our deadly embrace of Iraq.
My colleague Tom Friedman wrote last week: “Whenever I hear this surge idea, I think of a couple who recently got married but the marriage was never very solid. Then one day they say to each other, ‘Hey, let’s have a baby, that will bring us together.’ It never works. If the underlying union is not there, adding a baby won’t help.”
Juan Williams repeated Tom’s metaphor on Fox News, agreeing that “a bad relationship” cannot afford the “pressure” of a newborn.
Some women say that the Surge will not work because it’s like starting over with an old boyfriend: you think you’ve learned the pitfalls and can resume with more success — you can set benchmarks! — but instead you’re swiftly ensnared by the same old failures.
The favorite analogy of Rummy and others who pushed the war was parent-child. “If you never take the training wheels off a kid’s bicycle,” Paul Wolfowitz would say, “he’ll never learn to ride without them.”
With the Surge, as with the invasion of Iraq, W. is like the presumptuous date “who reserves a hotel room and then asks you to the prom,” as my friend Dana Calvo put it.
In other words, the president will ask us to the prom once he reserves the hotel room.
(Excerpt) Read more at select.nytimes.com ...
Modo is stuck on sophomore.
Well, MoDo, your leak sources will have the chance to vote on it and we'll see what happens.
The only kind of guy who would ever get a date with Mo Do would be a metrosexual gurly-man who doesn't mind being (or has already been) castrated.
Maureen Dowd article always equals Mega Barf. No need to be redundant!
Will somebody PLEASE got to RADIOSHACK and treat MoDo to a case of 9v batteries?
LOL.
Someone should send her a ball gag!
Sophomoric dreck. I can't believe that she has a job...even a minimum wage one where even there she'd be over paid.
*Chuckle* *Snicker*
the most breathtakingly serious case of bourbon-fuelled penis-envy ever seen.
The first line she wrote makes me want to hurl. But then, I've never managed to get through an entire MoDo piece w/o wanting to do so. The American military’s cocky heroes...??? She truly is from another planet.
God bless the men and women of the United States military!
and men as well!
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