There's a really chilling piece on what's up in the Mideast over at Salon. You have to watch a commercial to read it, but it's not too painful.In the piece, Scott Rosenberg speculates as to what, really, is the administration's foreign policy over there and suggests this as a fourth option:
"(4) There is no one at the wheel. "Let it play out" might be a calculated stance, but it could also be the pure deer-in-the-headlights paralysis of a White House that is so far out of its depth it cannot muster any sort of coherent response to a crisis. In other words, there might not be method to this madness; in the immortal words of Martin Sheen's Willard in "Apocalypse Now," 'I don't see any method at all.'"
I don't know about you, but my sinking-gut feeling is that this last scenario is the most likely."
It's worth a read, but for me that last one recalls those seven eternal minutes W spent reading My Pet Goat in the Florida classroom.
Deer in the headlights, indeed.
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Well, I'm damned if I know what to do about it either.
OTOH, to paraphrase David St. Hubbins of Spinal Tap, it's not his job to be as confused as me.
Amen to that, Dusty.
I don't have any idea what to do, except whatever the Bushies do, do the opposite. I've never seen a group of supposedly smart people be so wrong so often.
It must be some kind of record.
Sadly, I think it's been like this for a very long time.
Though the nation split along fundamentally different philosophical lines in the last election, I think the one area that most people overlap on is "Our people should not be dying".
Unforunately, that's the one thing that I think is going to change our direction in the Middle East, when enouh Americans get killed that we vote this asshat out of the office. Because a Republican controlled house and senate are not going to impeach him.
What scares me is that the state of the world is so edg-y and this Mad Hatter shows up to run the show - imagine our future if this continues.
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