There’s one funny thing about a war that has always baffled me. Let’s say, for instance, that we could make copies of Bush’s brain, capturing all of his thoughts and beliefs, and then were able to drop these copies into the heads of Iraqis. What do you think would happen next?
Logically, the war should stop. Why would one Bush brain blow up the other Bush brain? But it wouldn’t work that way, would it. War is somehow made into something much larger then the thoughts and beliefs of any one man. It doesn’t matter who it is or what he is thinking. He may agree with you 100%, but if he starts out on the other side, he’s going to stay on the other side. One of you is a dead man.
I sometimes imagine my thoughts and beliefs in the head of an Iraqi. I would be an Iraqi thinking everything that I do now. It’s a depressing game. I always end up a dead man, no matter how many ways I try to play it out. One of us always dies.