Sunday, August 28, 2005

"Andrew Sullivan, who does not have Luke Baker's experience on the ground in Iraq, bizarrely believes that the carbombings, bodies floating in the river, assassinations, ethnic militias, poisoned watermelons, bomb-scarred ice cream shops, shuttered video and liquor stores, and Swiss cheese architecture of Iraq present a "tantalizing" prospect of "success." It should be remembered where the word "tantalizing" came from. Odysseus describes a scene in Hades in Homer's Odyssey..."