Silver Linings Aplenty In a War-Torn Land

[BuckeFushe]

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/opinion/columnists/ny-nyhen233555018nov23,0,7809286.column?coll=ny-opinion-columnists

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November 23, 2003

Car bombs in Baghdad.

Missiles launched from donkey carts.

U.S. Black Hawk helicopters colliding in midair.

Talk about accentuating the positive!

Is there any piece of bad news from the occupation of Iraq that can't be reinterpreted as yet another American success? If so, the Bush administration doesn't seem to have found it.

Call it Operation Silver Lining. It's positively glistening now.

Where others see rising body counts and nervous allies and the growing prospect of quagmire, top administration officials see only further reason for cheer. Each deadly hit on an American GI, each RPG assault on Iraq's industrial infrastructure, each international aid organization that has to evacuate - all of it further proof that the enemy is growing desperate, that the Baathists are on the run, that Iraq's remaining "dead-enders" are about to meet their match.

No cloud is so dark that it doesn't have a silver lining.

And then a new day dawns in Iraq, and another round of worrisome news arrives, most likely worse than yesterday's.
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I wonder if Rumsfeld will tell us another bedtime story about flowers and kites after today's bloodbath and humiliation?