Friday, April 18, 2008

LIKE PUTTING LIPSTICK ON A PIG?

Robert Baer, former CIA operative and author of Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude, recently did an interview that came out in the May 2008 Men's Journal. In it he discussess the war in Afghanistan (it's a "joke"), the use of torture (doesn't work), and drinking with the Russians (bring butter).

For my money, he offers the best one-liner on the war in Iraq, and Gen. Petraeus's contribution to the effort.

"IRAQ IS A CORPSE THAT PETRAEUS KEEPS PUTTING LIPSTICK ON TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE IT'S STILL ALIVE."
If anyone has put it any clearer than this I'd like to see it.

- Mark

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