(if Barnett Rubin's distilled summary of "progress" is any measure, #2. below)
#1. US building ever more, large and small MILITARY BASES in IRAQ: the USA is now in the full-fledged COLONIAL OCCUPATION and SUBJUGATION business.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-iran_sly_mondec10,0,7747476.story?coll=chi_tab01_layout
<< The Bush-Cheney administration has surrendered much of Afghanistan to the Taliban and much of Pakistan to al-Qaida.
- They have turned most of Iraq over to Iran, creating the very danger over which they now threaten another disastrous war;
- they have strained the U.S. Armed Forces to the point of exhaustion,
- turned the Defense Department over to private contractors,
- the Justice Department over to the Republican National Committee, and the national debt over to foreign creditors, while leading a party whose single most basic belief is supposed to be that individuals must take personal responsibility for their actions. And they dare to lecture us on national security? >>
Barnett Rubin, quoted by Arthur
http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2007/09/cui-bono-and-bushs-monstrous-deadly.html
and by Scott Horton
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/09/hbc-90001292
