Progress
April 7th, 2007
Breaking news: on 60 Minutes this week, John McCain will say that it is a “sign of progress” that he only needed three Blackhawk helicopters, two Apache gunships, 100 armed troops and a caravan of armored Humvees so he could go shopping in Baghdad. He calls this “progress” because he claims that they wouldn’t have let him do this at all in times past.
Ironically, there was a time when you could go shopping there, or just strolling, completely unarmed and unprotected. It was when Saddam Hussein ran the place.
Now, that’s irony.
When it gets safe enough to go shopping with only one Apache gunship and a twenty-troop escort, let me know.