Inside the Resistance -- A Book Review

Dear drsohail:
Thanks for your encouraging comments. The Iraq war was ill-conceived, ill-planned and executed miserably. The administration is now ``hoping for a miracle,`` as observed by George Packer in the New Yorker of May 8, 2006.
He wrote, ``Asked why the President doesn`t take this or that step to try to salvage what will become his legacy - fire his Secretary of Defense, for example - they (many officials in the Administration) drop their heads, as if to say: We know, he should, but it`s not going to happen. At the same time, they can`t quit themselves to abandon hope for a miracle.``
He also wrote, ``When thirteen former Secretaries of State and Defense were summoned to the White House in January, Bush gave them all of ten minutes to air their views. Last week, in California, he described his policymaking process in unmistakably clear terms. ``I base a lot of my foreign policy decisions on some things that I think are true,`` he said. ``One, I believe there`s an Almighty. And secondly, I believe one of the great gifts of the Almighty is the desire in everybody`s soul, regardless of what you look like or where you live, to be free.`` It seems that unless God himself gains entry to the West Wing and informs the President that the Iraqis` desire to be free is not the issue, a grandiose theology will continue to doom America and Iraq to a bloody stalemate.``
It seems that he is the new Messiah of our times.

Mohammad Gill

Dear Mohammad Gill.... A wonderful review. Now I am inspired to read the book.

It is tragic that all the American lives lost in the war are counted but Iraqi lives are not

counted and if counted not shared with the world. We need more books like these and

more writers like you to review such books to keep all of us informed about realities that

are being suppressed, repressed and censored. thanks...sohail

Long Live Queen Blair...!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: # 1

That will not happen. Look at Kissinger. He`s still around.

In Fallujah, according to British newspaper reports, ambulance drivers were targeted by US snipers, even though the ambulances had red crosses marked on them. Shameful .

In Falluja we Americans have committed a war crime of unparalleled brutality against innocent civilians -- one day those chickens are coming home to haunt George Bush -- he will be tried as a WAR CRIMINAL -- like Milosevic.