THE SURGE
Is it me or is our president begging to be impeached? Our prodigal son, who cast the first stone and found himself a stranger in a strange land, is trying desperately to restore his honor. In what is ostensibly a political gambit, Junior is surging against the Democratic majority in Congress. The president has decided to run the squeeze play on his opponents across the aisle. Bring on "The Surge." Tune in tonight, as the drama plays out on prime-time TV.
Damned if they do and damned if they don't, Democrats will be faced with a Hobson's choice: whether or not to fund an additional 20,000 surging troops under the command of their unstable president. To fund means implied complicity. To not fund is to withdraw support for the troops, comfort the enemy, and accept blame for the inevitable loss. Between doubling-down and stepping down, Bush needs to run out the clock.
Cutting funding, sadly, is more a symbolic gesture than a tactic. By the time the stop-gap measure could be enacted, the new boots will already be on the streets of Baghdad. The delicate balance of power gets very unstable in a war setting -- especially one as ill-defined as the Worldwide War on Terror. The tilt always seems to favor war in a democracy.
Bush has not done well in past surges. The storm surge in New Orleans caught our administration completely unprepared, and ultimately humiliated. In a sense, the US has been surging in Iraq ever since Shock and Awe became Mission Accomplished. Looking for new blood, and more recruits, Al Qaeda has begged Bush to surge more. For them, more troops means more targets and more jihadists.
The Surge is the last do-over test for our paedomorphic president. He failed to do his homework, and we are being punished. When the music stops, and US helicopters are evacuating Baghdad, Junior does not plan on being the last kid standing. Unlike Wagner, whose music was said to be better than it sounds, Junior's strategic thinking is not. Plagued not by Norse Gods but a Christian one, Junior's leadership filled a much-needed gap. There would be no such respite in religion's bloody march through the 21st Century.
George W. Bush will not face the music until he is impeached. That is his message to the nation tonight. Meanwhile, the Decider of Decisions, and his supporters, have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
Is it me or is our president begging to be impeached? Our prodigal son, who cast the first stone and found himself a stranger in a strange land, is trying desperately to restore his honor. In what is ostensibly a political gambit, Junior is surging against the Democratic majority in Congress. The president has decided to run the squeeze play on his opponents across the aisle. Bring on "The Surge." Tune in tonight, as the drama plays out on prime-time TV.
Damned if they do and damned if they don't, Democrats will be faced with a Hobson's choice: whether or not to fund an additional 20,000 surging troops under the command of their unstable president. To fund means implied complicity. To not fund is to withdraw support for the troops, comfort the enemy, and accept blame for the inevitable loss. Between doubling-down and stepping down, Bush needs to run out the clock.
Cutting funding, sadly, is more a symbolic gesture than a tactic. By the time the stop-gap measure could be enacted, the new boots will already be on the streets of Baghdad. The delicate balance of power gets very unstable in a war setting -- especially one as ill-defined as the Worldwide War on Terror. The tilt always seems to favor war in a democracy.
Bush has not done well in past surges. The storm surge in New Orleans caught our administration completely unprepared, and ultimately humiliated. In a sense, the US has been surging in Iraq ever since Shock and Awe became Mission Accomplished. Looking for new blood, and more recruits, Al Qaeda has begged Bush to surge more. For them, more troops means more targets and more jihadists.
The Surge is the last do-over test for our paedomorphic president. He failed to do his homework, and we are being punished. When the music stops, and US helicopters are evacuating Baghdad, Junior does not plan on being the last kid standing. Unlike Wagner, whose music was said to be better than it sounds, Junior's strategic thinking is not. Plagued not by Norse Gods but a Christian one, Junior's leadership filled a much-needed gap. There would be no such respite in religion's bloody march through the 21st Century.
George W. Bush will not face the music until he is impeached. That is his message to the nation tonight. Meanwhile, the Decider of Decisions, and his supporters, have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
posted by R. Reynolds at 9:40 AM
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