Fabian Perez Flamenco Dancer painting

Fabian Perez Flamenco Dancer painting
Fabian Perez christine painting
Americans feel better about themselves. It was splendid and necessary but also unreal — an action-adventure that, like most movies, was divided into three chapters, with decisive turning points: 1)the Iraqi invasion and the buildup of coalition forces; 2)the onset of the air war; and 3)the ground war and its denouement. The victory came with such merciless ease that on the winners’ side, the deeper levels of experience (nobility, sacrifice, endurance and so on) were not engaged. The victors now celebrate mostly their relief that they have escaped what might have been. By the fourth of July, the glorious moment will seem a long time ago.The prospects going into the war were horrifying: the fourth largest army in the world, commanded by a thug whom we thought cunning at the time and even invested with satanic powers. Saddam was armed with chemical weapons and was working on the nuclear kind. All those dark possibilities gave the coalition, in effect, a license to kill. The killing was very well done. I hope it does not give us too much pleasure.