Sugar Daddies">Sugar Daddies
Andrew Sullivan has the most convincing argument for remaining in Iraq I’ve read thus far, citing an e-mail from a military chaplain in Fallujah. Money quote:
We come along and lock up sugar daddy [Saddam] and give these people the toughest challenge in the world, FREEDOM. You want a job? Earn it! A house? Buy it or build it! Security? Build a police force, army and militia and give it to yourself. Risk your lives and earn freedom. The good news is that millions of Iraqis are doing just that, and some pay with their lives. But many, many are struggling with freedom (just like East Germans, Russians, Czechs, etc.) and they want a sugar daddy, the U.S.A., to do it all. We refuse. We don’t want to be plantation owners. We make it clear we are here to help, not own or stay. They get mad about that, sometimes.
Read the rest of it here.
Further down the page he picks up on a beautiful piece of soon-to-be-Spew:
Other than assassination, all we can do is censure her.
Context here.