Seeing the Light
Mowaffaq al-Rubaie, Iraq's National Security Advisor, is the latest visionary claiming to see the light at the end of the tunnel, saying that Iraq is "close" to being able to handle the insurgency in his country all by itself:
He said that within the next two years they would be able to cope without the help of international forces.
Two years? That doesn't seem very close to me.
Let's just hope that the light at the end of this tunnel — if there is an end to this tunnel — doesn't resemble the light that the US military worked towards at the end of the Vietnamese tunnel:
