Thursday 31 January 2008
With General “G.I. Joe” Lieberman in his foxhole, McCain envisions a U.S. troop presence in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East at levels that actually may undermine the very war against “Islamo-facism” that he intends to wage. The next president, whether or not be a President McCain, will inevitably face a Middle East on the verge of a post-colonial autocratic era where a new generation of autocratic Islamists will hold increasing sway over the levers of power in their Arab countries — Islamists (whether Sunni or Shiite) who oppose the presence of American troops in the Middle East. Big Mac’s Iraq Hundred Years’ War ☀
