Misters Bush and Rumsfeld had a dream: clear Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, displace Saddam Hussein, reconcile the warring two or three religious/ethnic groups, impose democracy, and ease Iraqi women toward freedom and a mild Western feminism. This was their dream.
Walt Disney said: “If you can dream it, you can do it.” These men dreamed it and believed they could do it. They dreamed it; they believed it, but have they done it? They have not. At least not yet. Mr. McCain optimistically believes it can be done, at least by the end of the century.
Jan Zwicky, Canadian poet and philosopher, in her poem, “The Geology of Norway,” writes:
A dream
is a carving knife
and the scar it opens in the world
is history.
The Bush dream has carved a virulent and lingering scar in 21st Century history–a festering scar, highly resistant to healing.
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