Foodies on Iraq

Don’t treat it as a “fruit salad,” says James Baker. It’s a “recipe for our defeat,” says John McCain. At last we’ve come to the real terms of debate over the Iraq Study Group Report. It’s a foodie fight.
Conservative jerks like McCain who support the war call the report a recipe for defeat as if the Bullshitter-in-Chief has ever offered a recipe for anything but. You have to wonder about their sanity and their tastebuds. Baker asked pols to eat the report whole, not to pick at it (“I like this but I don’t like that.”). You have to wonder about his fruity choice of language. (Arianne Huffington treats the thing more like a Big Mac®. She’s for “cutting the fat.”)
Foodies, feh!
As a British political analyst and antiwar activist, Milan Rai, pointed out this morning on Democracy Now!, the report offers a mere “modification of the occupation” of Iraq. The debate over the report gives the erroneous impression that real withdrawal is at stake, which is “not the case at all.”

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