Beware the Salesmen of Simple Solutions on Iraq
Summary
Those
who have ‘obvious’ solutions to the crisis in Iraq assume that the U.S.
government and military have more power, skills, and knowledge than
what recent experience has repeatedly demonstrated.
Congressional leaders left
the White House on Wednesday ‘deeply frustrated’ that President Obama
had not found a swift resolution to the conflict between Sunnis and
Shiites that began in the seventh century A.D…. ‘All we ask of this
President is that he do one thing: settle a religious conflict that has
been going on for a millennium and a half,’ [Senator] McConnell said.
‘What did he offer today? Nothing.’ Speaker of the House John Boehner …
[added], ‘This struggle between Sunnis and Shiites has been going on for
almost fifteen hundred years … [which] means President Obama has had
ample time to fix it.”
The passage above is a spoof written by the political comedian Andy Borowitz.
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