Mission Accomplished

The bombing on Tuesday of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad was the latest evidence that America has taken a country that was not a terrorist threat and turned it into one … America has created – not through malevolence but through negligence – precisely the situation the Bush administration has described as a breeding ground for terrorists: a state unable to control its borders or provide for its citizens’ rudimentary needs … Iraqis today couldn’t care less about democracy, they just want assurance that their daughters won’t be raped or their sons kidnapped en route to the grocery store.