If I were, say, putting this in a novel…

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…then this NYT Op-Ed by David Brooks would be shortly followed by Bush announcing that we’ll let our good, dear friends France, Germany and Russia bid on those Iraqi contracts after all. Not that I have anything against David or his article – indeed, I found it a most amusing rasberry in the face of everyone with a Bush Lied, yadda yadda fetish – but I enjoy irony, too… and that would have been nicely ironic.

Alas – from a certain point of view, of course – it has not yet happened at this date. Guess that we’re just going to have to muddle on without them. Of course, the first two have other problems right now…

(Via Tim Blair.)

Moe

3 thoughts on “If I were, say, putting this in a novel…”

  1. First, with regards to the directive on awarding reconstruction contracts, Brooks is wrong IMNHO. If you read the actual directive (click on my name to view the report), it seems designed more to encourage more countries to make a “contribution of force” as in send in troops in order to be eligible to bid for these contracts rather than punishing other nations. France, Germany, Russia, et al could theoretically then become eligible if they were willing to send in some people to help restore order to the country.
    Second, with regards to the following point by Mr. Brooks:

    The U.S. administration is confronted with three nations that have stabbed it in the back with alacrity. The German leader vowed not to run a re-election campaign based on anti-Americanism, then turned around and did just that. The French government has done all it could to ensure that the U.S. effort to transform Iraq would fail. Russia was also willing to let the Iraqis rot in their slave state.

    I would just like to remind people for the record that France and Germany were also both instrumental in getting Turkey to deny us a northern front during the Iraqi mission thereby putting American lives in danger. A fact which one would hope would be mentioned in a paragraph about how these nations stabbed the United States in the back.

  2. It sounds more like a letter to the editor from a college drop out than it does an op-ed piece from a credentialed writer. How much do they pay Brooks for reaching so deep for an “opinion”?

  3. I’ll let Jesse at Pandagon handle this:
    Honest To A Drunk-Ass Fault
    David Brooks says that the Bush Administration is drunk on honesty.
    “Honesty” is apparently Brooksian for “doing what I want”. He keeps saying Bush is honest…yet his proof is that Bush did stuff that Brooks liked, not that anyone else lied about what they did.
    Republicans: not understanding the meanings of words since Lincoln died.

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