Where Will It End -

Where Will It End - So listening to Arthur Kent's bleating (as indistinct from so much other bleating this past few months), I tried to catalog the little rhetorical steeplechase has characterized the spin over this war so far:

• "We couldn't possibly fight Iraq and hunt for Al Quaeda"
• There's just no way we can do this without allies!
• Without the UN, we can't possibly consider fighting a war!
• The war had better get underway by February, or it'll be too hot to fight!
• Without the Turks' cooperation, there's no way this can work!
• The Arab Street will have a cow! There will be terror attacks against US soft targets worldwide!
• This will be a quagmire!
• Hussein will blow the oil wells!
• Hussein will use his chemical weapons (the ones Blix said he didn't have)
• The Iraqi Irregulars will bog this thing down!
• The Iraqi people will fight for Iraq, if not for Hussein!
• Our troops will avoid urban combat; the US doesnt' have the stomach to fight in the streets of Baghdad.

  and now,

• the US/UK plan to administer Iraq will be a disaster without the buy-in of the French, Russians and Germans.

The backed-up fountains of ridicule are ready to break loose in a torrent. Get ready, American Left.