Betray Us

Right now, in Iraq, the US military is doing the exact same thing as is now backfiring in Pakistan.

Forming and arming loose coalitions with 'Awakening Councils' who will swap allegiances like young lovers swap spit.

One of the big problems with this administration is it's seeming inability to learn from history or accept new realities when confronted by them. They have a myopic, unchallengeable perception of their own invincibility, their own intelligence and their own self perpetuating myth.

They are not gods, they are men and they are consistently and inscrutably wrong all of the time. They refuse to learn from history, prefering to revise it or conjour a rhetorical or literal untruth and pronounce it historic.