Belatedly - but you know what? Choke on it - Lost in Showbiz is pleased to draw your attention to a trenchant op-ed piece by fabled military strategist Alec Baldwin, who has some Really Fricking Interesting Stuff to say about Iraq.
It was the Team America marionette of Kim Jong-il who once opined "When you see Arec Barrwin, you see the true ugriness of human nature", but this column has always believed that conducting an endlessly vicious public divorce battle with Kim Basinger and understanding the complex hatreds of the middle east need not be mutually exclusive.
Alec is an actor who consistently inspires inquiry. Alas, his latest outing does not address the pressing question: "Hey - I saw The Departed. How bitter are you that Mark Wahlberg's now getting the roles that would once have been yours?"
But it IS entitled "How the next president should handle Iraq", and provides the definitive answer to anyone who woke up this morning, perused the usual car-bomb reports from that benighted country, and thought: I wonder what someone who'd admit to having starred in Pearl Harbor thinks of this?
"Let the Iraqis form their government," declares Alec. "If they don't, we attack. This time with a true coalition force..."
"Our enemies do not seek, in collegiate wrestling terms, an escape," opines the star of Along Came Polly. "They seek a reversal."
Seriously... "in collegiate wrestling terms"?!? Are we reading this stuff? Can we please stop considering this particular struggle in terms of a couple of frat-boys grappling for a takedown?
Anyway, there's more. So much more. But Lost in Showbiz hasn't the strength today, and probably never will.
