No end in sight

As someone who has done very well out of wars in the Middle East, I tend to turn a blind eye to reports of trouble there, but even I have to admit that things are going badly.

All the talk about weapons of mass destruction never fooled anyone, we went to war because we like war, and very entertaining it was too when there was still an Iraqi army fighting by Doonesbury rules and lots of laser-guided bombing footage on TV and old men hitting statues of Saddam with their slippers.

But now that all the glamour and excitement is over, I wonder if it's all been worth it. I have no care for the countless dead or the breakdown of 'society' but balk at the way business failed to take off there and the way untold billions have been squirreled away to persons other than myself.

My anarchist nephew Marmaduke even claims that the whole operation was probably corrupt but certainly hapless from the start. There was just no plan, no thought, only lust for battle and greed for Persian riches. He may have a point!

I'm beginning to think this George Bush character is not so sound after all. Perhaps Hilary Obamboo will do better, who knows.

I think what we need do do now is to leave quietly, in the way one does when one's had too much Champagne at a party. We've created hell on earth for these people, staying will just deepen the catastrophe.