Deja vu
Watching the news this week, I couldn’t help but feel that I’d seen all the reports before. All these joyous celebrations as the “last” US troops rolled over the Iraqi border, leaving the troubled country to run itself once more. Excuse me, didn’t we already have “Mission Accomplished” when Bush was still in power? And didn’t Obama oversee the last of the combat troops leaving Iraq in 2010? So who exactly were the soldiers left behind? Perhaps they were the ones the US kindly lent us to police our dangerous city streets. No, they’re just as dangerous as ever. The oil fields and oil wells, on the other hand, are as well guarded as an exhibition stand giving away free weapons at an Arab conference. Was that what the remaining few coalition troops have been up to ever since they officially ceased combat?
