As Angry As I Have Ever Been
Anger is a building sort of thing and it goes its own way, then something lights the fuse and away we go . . . the State Department reported yesterday, as a part of its annual world-wide Human Rights Report, that Iraqi police units are problematic. Often infiltrated and even dominated by members of sectarian militias, they continue to be linked to arbitrary arrests and to the torture, rapes and sometimes deaths of detainees.
It was that last part that stuck in my craw, like looking in a mirror and accusing the reflection.
I really don’t know where to start with this one, without sounding Maureen Dowd-like. Maureen’s shrill and constant one-note harping has, for me, become mere background music to what may once have been a defensible position.
But the fact that our own State Department finds no irony in publishing such a report is beyond me, leaves me breathless and despondent. Any normal code of intellectual morality, decries a United States Congress that regularly colludes with George B…