Rowhouse Logic - Breathtaking Inanity

Helena Cobban:

…I’ve increasingly been wondering– what with Neroponte first of all preparing to leave Iraq, and then leaving for his big new intel-management job in Washington… And what with the continued failure of the Iraqi parties to reach agreement on forming a government…

So I’ve been wondering: who the heck, on the US side, has been responsible for shepherding along the political process there?

Look, we might not like the fact, but under the international law of military occupation the US does have overall responsibility for the good governance (hah!) of Iraq, pending conclusion of a final peace agreement between Washington and a representative Iraqi government.

And hey, it’s not just that Neroponte was up and leaving the place, but don’t you remember, some time back, we were all assured that National Security Advisor Condi Rice was going to be “in charge of running Iraqi affairs from Washington”?? But since then she too has been given new responsibilities and now she’s off tooling around various parts of the world in her dominatrix jackboots…

So who is in charge of the Iraq “file”? Maybe just Rumsfeld? Maybe purely the military?

Or how about…nobody?

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