Gates has been nominated. Good. Don't envy the man his job. The second time he has had to come in and clean up some Else's mess. Hope he can do it. A military that has watched a lot of career officer go down when they couldn't stomach the insanity of Mr. Rumsfeld. A white house that seems to live in a world all to its self.
But that world is coming apart. Yes, Our Dear Leader is taking advantage of the vagueness of the Iraq Report. To whit: No time table saying just when our troops are to leave Iraq. That gives him just enough room to turn this debacle around and proclaim he "can stay the course." .
But thats what he wants. leave office and dump this tragedy in some else's lap. How sweet for him.
But on to other news. Caught Rev. Al Sharpton the other day one news or other. Not making any more sense now than he ever did. That was until he call Condoleezza Rice an Uncle Tom. Now there was something I haven't heard since I was a kid in New York. Even then it wasn't something that every one recognized.
Mostly He made himself look foolish. Please yes Condaleezza Rice is the white House Tool. She knows it and accepts it. But does that make her an Uncle Tom? If so what does that make Henry Kissinger when he was Secretary of State for Former President Nixon?
The White at the time of the Nixon Administration wasn't as prone to the stupidities we see today, But seriously he had to go where his boss said and do the impossible. He is a Jew and having to get the Arabs to sit down and talk with him was a small triumph all its own.
Today Ms. Rice has built a trust with the world leaders that most are willing to sit down and talk with her before they are willing to talk to President Bush.
And pardon me for begging the question but, does that make her an Uncle Tom? Maybe yes. Most likely no. Why? Really two reasons. One is that she understands the President that Colin Powell never could. Our Dear Leader President Bush makes the decisions. Right or wrong he is the one that in the end is going to do what he wants and no one is going to tell him differently.
I find that Donald Rumsfeld leaving was the most self serving exit that I have had witness in a long time. Please, a memo? Saying that there should be a new direction? Well he does have to leave in a way that he can be employed in the future. Being known as Bushes right hand may not look so good on a resume.
Now the recommendation from the Baker commission. Has a lot of good ideas and some off the wall ones. First it is a bad idea to talk to Iran. Never mind Syria. At this point Iran is hoping to repeat what it did to us in 1979. Lets get to the real point of this Iran is our enemy. It has never made any bones about that.
Engaging them in a dialog about Iraq is insane. So what is the solution? A hard difficult one. One is face the facts that the Iraqi people are embracing those people across the borders. By recognizing that we can fight this war in much saner way. Iran and Syria has stuck their nose where it doesn't belong. So how do we spank them?
The sad truth is I don't believe we can. The way this war has been mismanaged is criminal. It will be a long time before we will be able to do anything. The only alternative is to expand the war. There can be no real way around this. At this point Iran will once more sneer in our faces and once more be able to laugh at the foolish Americans.
Its a shameful day Gentle Reader when you know the enemy, having fought in one war that has gone no where only to find that we missed the real enemy by one country. Only now do we as a Nation find that an old enemy has been the one laughing at us as we fought one war. When in reality it was an entirely different war.
To late now. Continuing the war now will get more young people killed. and not much more than that.
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