{"id":957,"date":"2003-07-09T09:53:39","date_gmt":"2003-07-09T13:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/somewhat-strained-sports-metaphor\/"},"modified":"2003-07-09T09:53:39","modified_gmt":"2003-07-09T13:53:39","slug":"somewhat-strained-sports-metaphor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/somewhat-strained-sports-metaphor\/","title":{"rendered":"Somewhat Strained Sports Metaphor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hey, is it just me or does anyone else find the Miller Time military preening of the Administration more than a bit unseemly? I can understand the prestidigitation on WMD’s – hell, politics and sleight of hand are practically synonymous, and Americans have always been suckers for a slick sell.<\/p>\n

But the Holleywoodesque victory in Iraq already ensconced in history alongside D-Day and Iwo Jima, was really about as impressive as the Los Angeles Lakers rolling over a mediocre high school basketball team….<\/p>\n

Really, think about it. The Iraqi army had a snowball’s chance in the Sahara of giving the US Lakers anything to worry about, WMDs or no WMDs. The fact is, there are only a few teams on the planet who could give us a game; Russia, Britain and China, maybe, on a good day. Every other developed country, including France, German, Israel, and Italy, would be equivalent to the Lakers against a college team, at best. And once you get down to lesser powers like Pakistan, North Korea or Brazil, you are at the Lakers\/High School matchup level. Other recent US military “triumphs” like Afghanistan, Panama and that-Carribean-island-with-the-law-school-whose-name-I-always-forget, were clearly equivalent to watching the Lakers take on a tough middle-school squad.<\/p>\n

Now, if NBC’s Saturday afternoon Game of the Week was the Los Angeles Lakers vs. Brookline High School, how many Americans do you think would turn in? Care to make a bet on what the Vegas line on the game would be? So how come our stirring “victory” (in-progress) is being hailed as the second coming of Macarthur, Patton and Montgomery? Stay tuned for the next chapter….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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