SORCERER'S APPRENTICE

Our military strategy in Iraq reminds me of the Walt Disney tale “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice". In it Mickey Mouse as the apprentice, uses the Sorcerer’s magic to command his broom to fill the water urn. Mickey falls asleep and upon awakening, the broom is flooding the laboratory. Mickey smashes the broom but the fragments come to life drawing water with a vengeance.

In Iraq, we smash the insurgents but only inspire more through our careless violence against the Iraqi people. In the fable, the Sorcerer returns to stop the berserk brooms. While we have no sorcerer to save us from our senseless strategy in Iraq, we have something better - American public opinion.

Originally published in Daily Herald, June, 2005