The American dream

[bebau]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q

[vinhtruong]

Retired Marine General Anthony Zinni, who headed the US Central Command from 1997 to 2000, lamented that Iraq “reminds me of Vietnam. Here we have some strategic thinkers who have long wanted to invade Iraq. They saw an opportunity, and they used the imminence of the threat and the association with terrorism and the /11 emotions as a catalyst and a justification.
Whereas Vietnam turned embarrassing after two to three years of heavy fighting, and the first Iraq war appeared inadequated managed with the hindsight of a year and a half, the second Iraq war may have produced rapid global reversal that few Americans comprehended. Early but worrisome evidence came in the postwar worlwide polling by the Pew Research Center that showed huge numbers of Muslims had been won over to Bin Laden and away from support for the US war on terrorism. In virtually every Muslim nation, lopsided ratios wished that the Iraqis had fought harder
Clearly, the Bush family’s place in US HISTORY MUST RISE OR FALL ON ITS ABILITY TO DEAL WITH THE Middle East. The concern must be over how those same controversal talents and conflicts of interest will be remembered in histories of the twenty-first-century fortunes of the United States.
Meanwhile, to his followers and the world, Bin Laden said: “I tell them [the Americans] that these events have divided the world into two camps, the camp of the faithful and the camp of infidels. May God shield us and you from them”
Bin Laden exulted that America would now feel what the West had done to Islam