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Insult to injury, or Dawdling by the Tigris

It is not entirely clear why Ibrahim al-Jaafari, Iraq’s transitional prime minister, did not turn and punch Senator Carl Levin in the mouth for this bit of showboating arrogance:

“Those who are negotiating a new government, it seems to me, have now got to put into their calculus that there’s a understandable expectation on the part of the American people that the dawdling will end. There’s been too much dawdling while Baghdad is burning, too much debating while Iraq is in turmoil.”

At the very least, al-Jaafari might have pointed out to Levin and his traveling companion, the very forceful and very pointed” Senator John Warner, that a little dawdling and debate in the American legislature three and a half years ago might have spared Baghdad the torch.

In the meantime, the one man most responsible for the disaster we call Iraq continues to see things that no one else can see. That is, of course, the very definition of a hallucination.

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