Coalition of the Shrinking 0
Dick Polman:
All of which is further proof that the term “coalition forces,†a staple of cable TV news, is a misnomer. By late summer, after the latest British drawdown and a scheduled pullout by Poland, and a scheduled pullout of Danish ground forces, the tally of non-American troops will total roughly 11,800. That’s only enough people to fill half the seats at a Sixers basketball game in Philadelphia. And, at most, that’s only 10 percent of all the troops in Iraq; by late summer, Bush will be supplying, at a minimum, the other 90 percent.
And the uber-President continues to insist that things are going well.
Which prompts the question: Do they lie to themselves as much as they lie to the rest of us?
