Bagdad on the Bayou

Little Tommy Friedman in today's NYT, approvingly quoting Michael Mandelbaum:
"The U.S. military presence in Iraq today is like the dikes and levees that were protecting New Orleans from the flood. The equivalent of the flood for Iraq is a civil war between Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds. The U.S. military right now is holding that back."
A more precise analogy would have called the US military presence Iraq's Hurricane Katrina X 100.

He goes on to advise the Kurds and Shia that they should get their constituional act together. Good advice. I imagine they pay as much attention to Tommy as he does to me.

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