Saddam

So we caught the bogeyman-- well, at least Saddam Hussein. I guess it will be a great day for politicos to either announce great victory or claim defeat (perhaps because it took so long) and/or point out that Ben Laden is still out there. I saw a photo that I guess was supposed to be him-- with a very shaggy beard, looking pathetic and a little freaked out (they were looking in his mouth-- I guess to check his dental records?) It's a fascinating turn of events. Does this mean some (at least) of the resistance we've encountered in Iraq will fade? Or get worse? Can the US declare great victory and pull out now, thus ending what is turning into a bit of a nightmare scenario but saving face? I know that there has never been a real link to Hussein and the 9/11 attack. But I do know that a man who had hundreds of children in prison for refusing to serve in the military deserved to be taken out of power. I just am not sure we should be the police of the world.

I read somewhere that the supposedly Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times" is not actually a Chinese curse, but originates somewhere else-- probably some PR person like the supposed Chief Seattle speech. But wherever the interesting times curse comes from, it certainly does work. I think non-interesting times are generally much better for a majority of people.