Edifice Wrecks

 

It boggleth the mind what kind of bog has mired the Bush policy genii. I’m thinking of Cheney and Rumsfeld and Powell and Rice and Wolfowitz and Pearle; may they all rot in their own waste, preferably in a remote part of Afghanistan, if that doesn’t sound redundant, or perhaps Tikrit. May Libby, Rove and The Leakers, if they haven’t already been named, join their bosses where the fruits of their labor are rotting on the ground.

What brings this bile to the surface are deteriorating situations all ‘round the globe where we have messed and messed up. Starting in the Middle East, where the Israelis have brought the war back to Syria. Not that they weren’t "justified" if as alleged the country was hosting terrorist training. Still, it’s not a good thing to add parties to a shooting war.

Skip over to Afghanistan, or skip over it if you value your well-being. Our Kabul puppet maintains marginal control at best over a very small portion of the country, backed by tens of billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars, and with American and allied soldiers’ lives on the line and being lost. The Taliban are rebuilding. We don’t know what to do.

Then there’s Iraq. I won’t go through the arguments why we shouldn’t have staged the IraqAttaq in the first place, but will speak to the critical issue of getting out. There are two essential reasons for wanting to extricate ourselves immediately. First, because we are dying there and will continue to do so because our uniform is a prime target for every terrorist in the world. And second, it’s costing us hundreds of billions of dollars that we need for our own children’s food and education; that’s what makes for true national security.

The solution is simple. President Bush asks to address the United Nations. He declares that we are a great nation and that we have helped to protect our planet from scourges like Hitler and Saddam, but we shouldn’t have gone it alone this last time. Then he tells them that they can write their own terms to take over the rebuilding.

But he’s not going to do that. It’s not in our national character to admit when we’ve made a mistake, and The Bush Boy certainly isn’t going to own up to it.

The core problem is that the Bushies really don’t know what’s going on. Since they’ve been in charge, they have made the wrong decisions for the wrong reasons based on data they knew to be wrong. Now, as the edifice wrecks, Condi and Rummy fight, Guantanamo leaks important information to terrorists like a sieve, and Bush-Lite is in New Hampshire telling the folks what a fine job he’s done. Is there a leader in the house?

And that’s SetonnoteS...I’m Tony Seton.

 

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