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Opinionjournal.com (8/1/03)
Meanwhile, the Associated Press reports that allied search teams
have "found dozens of fighter jets from Iraq's air force buried beneath
the sands." This took four months--and airplanes are a lot bigger than
vials of gas or germs.
And, just for fun (or maybe they're serious):
Left Coast Quagmire
California is a desert land roughly the size of Iraq. It is also an
object lesson in the dangers of trying to impose democracy in a culture
that is not ready for it. California "is degenerating into a banana
republic," writes former Enron adviser Paul Krugman in his New York
Times column. Leon Panetta, himself a Californian, writes in the Los
Angeles Times that California is undergoing a "breakdown in [the] trust
that is essential to governing in a democracy." Newsday quotes Bob
Mulholland, another California political activist, as warning of "a
coup attempt by the Taliban element." Others say a move is under way
to "hijack" California's government.
What isn't widely known is that the U.S. has a large military presence
in California. And our troops are coming under attack from angry
locals. "Two off-duty Marines were stabbed, one critically, when they
and two companions were attacked by more than a dozen alleged gang
members early Thursday," KSND-TV reports from San Diego, a city in
California's south.
How many young American men and women will have to make the ultimate
sacrifice before we realize it isn't worth it? Is the Bush
administration too proud to ask the U.N. for help in pacifying
California? Plainly California has turned into a quagmire, and the
sooner we bring our troops back home, the better.
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