During a meeting with English PM Gordon Brown, the head of America's armed forces in Iraq, General David Petraeus said yesterday that it is apparently time to get "to grips with the obvious idea that you reconcile with your enemies".....now where does that idea sound familiar from? Too bad it's cost over $450 Billion and taken 75,000 civilian deaths and to reach such a 'radical' logic....maybe next year we'll hear him saying that he's gonna beat his machine gun into a plough?
"Iraq's problems will require a long-term effort," Gen Petraeus said. Presumably, he did not taking the time to stop and apologise on behalf of the military power that is causing most of these 'problems'....well you can only ask for so much at a time I suppose....
Still, it's pretty cool to know that 'the Powers' of the Empire really are just as good, just as fallen, and just as redeemable as the rest of us....the men with the big guns can't deny the simple logic of reconciliation instead of continued destruction.
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