American political discourse about the situation in Iraq
If you've turned on TV or radio recently, you can hear senators, commentators and anyone who wants to say anything about Iraq, give a long discourse about how the “men and women of the military” are doing a great job for the country.
Once they've proven their patriotism, they go on to say, our forces need to be there to “provide security”. We can't “afford to fail”. The vast majority of our military is decent and a vast majority of Iraqis are “with us”. We want to “bring them democracy”. And harp about American idealism (Mr Safire at NY times) and freedom (to drive gas guzzling SUVs) and values.
What these guys don't have a clue about is – what do Iraqis want ? Even the “coalition” polls show that more than 80% of Iraqis don't like the American presence.
The seemingly excessive quotation in this weblog is meant to be a criticism of American media which adapts these terms without questioning them.