Administration Wanderings

In today's New York Times, senior administration officials hint at something interesting, and by interesting I mean troubling, and by troubling I mean ironic, and by ironic, I mean troubling.

Faced with a new report which has nothing but confirmed suspicions long held by many, it appears as if the situation facing the Bush Administarion/Iraq government is that of civil war. Not strife, not resistance, but both of those anddd civil war. So what does this mean for the government (in the twofold sense of US/Iraq)?

' “Senior administration officials have acknowledged to me that they are considering alternatives other than democracy,” said one military affairs expert who received an Iraq briefing at the White House last month and agreed to speak only on condition of anonymity.

“Everybody in the administration is being quite circumspect,” the expert said, “but you can sense their own concern that this is drifting away from democracy.” ' (NYTimes, 8-17-06, "Bombs Aimed At G.I.'s in Iraq Are Increasing").

It appears as if the administration that has been put on this earth to spread democracy, to put freedom on the march is now considering alternatives. Unfortunately this won't be the first time that the US has backed such regimes.