The ABCs of Operation American Quagmire

"Yet we were wrong, terribly wrong. We owe it to future generations to explain why." Former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara on the Vietnam War. (1995)

"It's just wrong what we're doing. It's morally wrong, it's politically wrong, it's economically wrong." Robert McNamara on the war in Iraq (2004)

"If the Bush administration remains in power, failure in Iraq is a virual certainty." Retired Air Force Col. Mike Turner (2004)

Writer and media consultant Maureen Farrell has written an article, using the alphabet, choosing words from A-Z, to comment on what she calls "Operation American Quagmire." Click on the title of this blog to go to the article from BuzzFlash.com.

The first five words are AGENDA, BEGINNING (as in Bush's crash course during the campaign in 2000), CHALABI, DEMOCRACY, and ENERGY TASK FORCE.

Ms. Farrell finds crucial words and writes a short paragraph on each, followed by an Update paragraph. She ends with XENOPHOBIA, YEARNING, and ZINNI.

This is a clever, yet very thought-provoking piece. Highly recommended.