I'm at it again. Rampant political sarcasm warning.

Look out Saddam, the US of A is on the way? Oh dear. I suspected this might be coming, and really, really hoped it wouldn't. I still hope it doesn't eventuate. I tell you, a cynic is just a frustrated optimist.

Let's take it from the top of this article, which I actually do agree with in general tone. Mostly.

The US aim in rampaging into Iraq, in addition to getting rid of that git with the moustache, of course, would be to demolish "once and for all Iraq’s capacity to produce nuclear, biological and chemical weapons." Because in this day and age of rampant global capitalism, where you can buy just about anything on the black market, it's the ability to produce them, not the will to use them, that's the really important factor. And, say, an aeroplane isn't at all a dangerous weapon.

The US isn't sure whether it can feel safe "as long as regimes such as Saddam’s are left intact." Whereas I would say the US isn't going to be able to feel safe until it stops pissing people off by sticking its big nose in where a huge number of people think it has no right to go. Anti-US-intervention terrorists strike, and what does the US do? Intervene. Can anyone else see the problem here?

Coming out from this article (and the one on the previous page of the newspaper about the US gaily waltzing into Georgia as the Russians sputter in disbelief), I get a vivid image of the US as a man who has been stung by a wasp in his house. Now he's pissed off, and staggering around the place, waving a rolled-up newspaper and trying to hit the elusive culprit. It's all well and good, but sooner or later he's going to break a really expensive vase, and then the shit's going to hit the fan.