Pop Quiz 0
Dan Froomkin asks whether the Current Federal Administrator will answer a few questions tonight. Here’s a couple or three of them:
* Will he be up front about who we’re fighting and why? Will he acknowledge that the chief mission of existing and supplemental troops will be fighting well-armed rival Muslim factions?
* Will he acknowledge how the mission in Iraq has changed, from ostensibly being about weapons of mass destruction all the way to tamping down a civil war?
* Will he address the hideously botched execution of Saddam Hussein, which provided such a gripping view of the vicious sectarianism plaguing the country?
* Will he acknowledge that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has repeatedly made promises and not delivered in the past, and explain why he trusts Maliki this time?
* Will he acknowledge that Iraqi forces have never taken their share of the responsibility in Iraq, and that training has thus far been problematic?
* If he says this is a turning point, will he explain why, in contrast to all the previous turning points, he believes this one is for real?
In short, will he try a little honesty.
Me, I’m not bothering to stay up. The suspense is not killing me.
But it’s killing a whole lot of other people in a land far far away.
