Colin Powell's mentor believes that Iraq is a lost cause ...

Dr. Harlan Ullman of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies

In a published interview with reporter, Eleanor Hall, Harlan Ullman who has had former Secretary of State, Colin Powell, as one of his students said that he "holds out little hope" that the President will redirect the discouraging course of events already underway, either as a result of the increased death counts or any recommendations made by the committee headed by James A. Baker III.

In very few words, he said, "... we are on a stupid course." But read it yourself, evaluate Dr. Ullman's words ... and come to your own conclusions. It's short and won't take very long.

You can read the interview itself, of course (link above), or any of a number of newspaper articles relating to it on the Internet, but the bottom line is (1) the psyche of Mr. Bush and (2) the psyche of the American people. Mr. Bush is stubborn (read Bush on the Couch by Dr. Justin Frank, discussed in earlier postings) ... and the American people aren't much better. We have (sadly) "gotten used to" ten to twenty US military dead in Iraq each week and even the number "665,000" (estimated dead Iraqis from the "war" since 2003 using solid statistics) didn't stay in the newspapers even as long as the Mark Foley affair.

These are very sad days for America in so many, many ways. I saw the Clint Eastwood movie, Flags of Our Fathers, today and realized that some things never change. So awfully sad.