it's like...

it's like helping the cat out of the door.she wants to go, you want her
to go, but the door is shut and you have to open it, and the cat does
not want to feel the toe of your boot in its backside at the crucial moment
of entering the jungle of the yard. on the other hand you don't want to
stand there, nor - even worse, - to witness her turn round in panic at the
last moment, and flee upstairs... zen is doing it right, on each
occasion, even as one makes error after error.

iraq : it was the attempted make-over by a degraded, inferior,
cruder culture that happened to have a military advantage and was seeking
regional power bases , that the honour of the iraqi people, their tribal,
religious, arabic-speahung, islamic , personal honour will never take.
americans should welcome something in these others they honour in
themselves.