http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=140467&version=1&template_id=46&parent_id=26Published: Wednesday, 28 March, 2007, 09:00 AM Doha Time
By Eric S Margolis
NEW YORK: Four years ago this month, the Bush Administration promised its impending campaign of ‘shock and awe’ against Iraq would sweep away Saddam Hussain’s ‘evil’ regime, unearth his hidden weapons of doom, and swiftly bring the light of democracy to benighted Iraqis. The cost of the jolly little war would be low, and Iraqis were certain to greet their ‘liberators’ with flowers.
Four years later, shock and awe remain. But the shock and awe is in the United States, not Iraq.
Most Americans now believe the war is a disaster and must end quickly. They are awed by the huge, ever-rising expense of occupying Iraq, which has now surpassed Vietnam to become America’s most costly conflict since World War II.
The new, Democratic-controlled Congress is struggling -– to choke off funding for President George Bush’s recently intensified military operations in Iraq.
A majority of Americans know things have gone terribly wrong in Iraq, very few yet understand the wider implications of their nation’s strategic failure in Iraq.
The world’s sole superpower, which dominates the globe through military might, vast wealth, and the respect or fear such titanic strength engenders, may soon face the humiliating fact that its much-vaunted armed forces and state of the art technology were thwarted – even defeated – in Iraq by a few thousand rag-tag mujahideen using small arms and home-made bombs.
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