Love Among the Ruins: MAUREEN DOWD - Deadly Embrace +
by MAUREEN DOWD - The New York Times
Wed Jan 10 05:32:12 2007
DOWD: The search goes on for the right relationship metaphor to describe our
deadly embrace of Iraq.
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Love Among the Ruins
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: January 10, 2007
It isnt really a romance turned sour, because it was never sweet.
The American militarys cocky heroes were supposed to sweep in and carry off a
poor, grateful Iraq to security and bliss, like Richard Gere did Debra Winger
in the finale of An Officer and a Gentleman. The strategy was: Love lift us
up where we belong/Where the eagles cry/On a mountain high.
Didnt happen. Yet the search goes on, in this country obsessed with hookups
and breakups, for the right relationship metaphor to describe our deadly
embrace of Iraq.
My colleague Tom Friedman wrote last week: Whenever I hear this surge idea, I
think of a couple who recently got married but the marriage was never very
solid. Then one day they say to each other, Hey, lets have a baby, that will
bring us together. It never works. If the underlying union is not there,
adding a baby wont help.
Juan Williams repeated Toms metaphor on Fox News, agreeing that a bad
relationship cannot afford the pressure of a newborn.
One reporter who writes about the war told me he thinks of the American
entrenchment in Iraq more like a marriage thats run out of gas, but you decide
to stay together because of the kids.
Bill Maher used a bawdier metaphor of a man who promises his date a glorious
romp, doesnt deliver, and then just refuses to admit it and get out.
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