Tuesday May 25, 2004

A Simple Solution

“Since it is clear that we cannot leave until they stop killing us, and equally clear that they will not stop killing us until we leave,” author George Saunders offers a strategy for getting out of Iraq.

It will be difficult, Saunders concedes, “but our leaders have already shown the way by showing that, if one has a vision, and refuses to betray that vision by modifying it, or becoming distracted by small details, such as, for example, the confusing data emanating from the non-theoretical world, filled with actual people, pets, clothes on clotheslines, nuanced loyalties, etc., mountains can be moved, nations can be changed, great things can be accomplished.”