DECONSTRUCTING DAVID: PSYCHO-POLITICAL ANANLYSIS BY HAIKU
Thursday, April 17, 2008
1.
The lights in Baghdad
Exist in tunnels in my mind
Dust turned to progress
2.
Reversible fault
Destructive forces elsewhere
My role has been played
3.
In a remote thought
I question -- I believe that
This end should not be
4.
You think my still mind
Would place uneven fault there?
Forward to Iran.
5.
Some fragile forces
Settle on the ground to have
A place to count time
BY BESS KALB
ILLUSTRATION BY JAKE SCHORR
General Petraeus’s Testimony Before the Senate Armed Services Committee, April 8, 2008
“We think it makes sense to have some time, to let the dust settle, perhaps to do some adjustment of forces...”
“We haven’t turned any corners. We haven’t seen any lights at the end of the tunnel...”
“That would be a pretty remote thought in my mind...”
“Progress in Iraq had been significant and uneven... fragile and reversible...”
“Countless sectarian fault lines still exist in Baghdad and elsewhere...”
“The question is at what pace that will take place....”
“The destructive role Iran has played...”
“If you believe as I do—and the commanders on the ground believe—that the way forward on reductions should be conditions-based, then it is just flat not responsible to try to put down a stake in the ground and say this is when it would be or that is when it would be...”
