Shush. A minute of silence, please. President Bush is speaking at this moment to the
U.N.
General Assembly about the so-called liberation
of Iraq, known as Shrub’s Folly by many U.S. government officials who prefer to remain
anonymous so as to not lose their jobs.
Postscript: His speech has just ended. “Across Iraq,” he
said, “life is being improved by liberty. … Across the world, nations are more secure
because an ally of terror has fallen.” Really, that’s what he
said. He also briefly spoke about Afghanistan, nuclear
proliferation and — at what seemed like weirdly greater length to me — the need to combat
the international sex trade. Since when was that elevated to the top of the U.S. agenda? Has he
been reading my favorite French novelist, Michel
Houellebecq?
