Posted: 4/12/2004 6:37:50 PM EDT
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THEN One Month In "We are mapless, we are lost, and we are distracted by gusts of wishful thinking. That our high command could believe the Afghani peasantry or even the Taliban would change sides after a few weeks of bombing! This is fantasizing in high places. In the history of aerial bombardment, can you think of a single instance of the bombed embracing the bombers? Bombing always unites the bombees against the bombers, and-duh!-guess what the reaction has been in Afghanistan? You don't need to speak Urdu to figure it out, which is good since none of us does." Nicolas Von Hoffman, The New York Observer, 11/19/01 "The critics, on the other hand, are dusting off Vietnam War-era terms, like "quagmire " a swamp that's nearly impossible to escape. And this is just a month into the Afghanistan war." - Bob Franken, CNN, 10/31/01 "QUAGMIRE RECALLED: AFGHANISTAN AS VIETNAM" - R.W. Apple, The New York Times, 10/31/01 "The word quagmire has again begun to haunt conversations among government officials and students of foreign policy as complications become apparent in Afghanistan" - The New York Times, 10/31/01 "Are we quagmiring ourselves again?" - Maureen Dowd, 10/28/01 "But can you promise to say how long American -- can you avoid being drawn into a Vietnam-like quagmire in Afghanistan?" - Question to President Bush in his 10/11/01 press conference "If we become the latest in a long line of superpowers to fall into a quagmire in Afghanistan, this is not the war we have been waiting for." - Clarence Page, 9/21/01 NOW A Year In "Quagmire in Iraq Calls for Leadership" - Los Angeles Times, 4/12/04 "Aren't we in enough trouble with the economy and the quagmire that Iraq has become?" - William Raspberry, The Washington Post, 4/12/04 "Now, our troops are trapped in a quagmire" - Cynthia Tucker, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, 4/12/04 "It is hoped that Bush and his administration have not opened another Pandora's box as we view the utter quagmire in Iraq" - St. Petersburg Times, 4/11/04 "The attacks were used to justify a pre-emptive war against Iraq, which appears to be devolving into a quagmire and drawing resources from homeland security and the al Qaeda threat that remains very much alive today" -- San Francisco Chronicle, 4/9/04 "If it isn't a quagmire yet, Iraq is certainly a forest of question marks." Bruce Morton, CNN, 4/8/04 "Iraq will be another Vietnam for America and the occupiers." -- Muqtada al-Sadr, 4/6/04 "We're facing a quagmire in Iraq, just as we faced a quagmire in Vietnam." Ted Kennedy, 4/5/04 ace-o-spades.blogspot.com/ |