"Sweets and flowers."

I woke up this morning to an interview on NPR. Steve Inskeep was interviewing Kanan Makiya for the series "The Long View". Makiya was the Iraqi advisor who urged President Bush into the war and who assurred the administration that American soldiers would be greeted by the Iraqi people with "sweets and flowers". I thought you would all like to know that Mr. Makiya has forgiven himself for this outrage...it's all behind him now, and he's not blaming us or the Administration either. He's blaming his own people. He says that they just don't know how not to be victems. He expressed disappointment with the new Iraqi government and said you could have knocked him over with a feather (my words) when the government split into factions and people started killing eachother.

Now, what do you suppose this man does now? Works with the Iraqi government to set things right? Works with refugees from his country? Has anything to do with his destroyed country at all? Nope. He is a professor at Brandeis University teaching our young people about the middle east and how military decisions should be made. He says he has no plans to return to Iraq...I guess life as a professor at an elite University in America is just too cushy.

Did somebody say...shit floats?