This article by John Kerry, published today by the Wall Street Journal, is right on target. Current U.S policy toward Afhanistan is grossly negligent and dangerous, as we've previously argued at this site.
According to a National Intelligence Estimate completed in April the U.S. occupation of Iraq is the leading inspiration for new Islamic extremist networks and cells that are united by little more than an anti-Western agenda. Rather than contributing to eventual victory in the global counterterrorism struggle, it concludes that the…
According to the website of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991 “left the Russian Federation with the bulk of the massive Soviet weapons of mass destruction complex.” The U.S. is about to start consciously disregarding this immense threat, however. The September 15, 2006…
A new Washington Post article reveals that the feckless Bush administration blew off rebuilding Iraq in 2003. Instead of securing the country and providing water and electricity to the Iraqis, the administration doled out billions to inept applicants demonstrating political and philosophical loyalty to Bush: After the fall of Saddam…
Here’s what the president said Monday night:
“The safety of America depends on the outcome of the battle in the streets of Baghdad”
Here’s an exerpt from a well-written post by Robert J. Elisberg:
Actually, no, it doesn’t. Anyone who thinks our safety “depends” on street fighting in Baghdad has a piss-poor, pathetic view of America and should be so ashamed that they stay in their room in disgrace. Of course, if they think that little of America, they probably are already hiding in their rooms.
Elisberg continues:
We’ve reached the point where the White House has become a scene out of the “Wizard of Oz.” A disembodied head blowing smoke and making ominous pronouncements, while begging us not to look at the little man behind the curtain.
The words are fantasy, the reality befuddled.
Here’s some more examples from Bush’s 9/11/06 speech, all of them equally pathetic:
We’re adapting to stay ahead of the enemy, and we are carrying out a clear plan to ensure that a democratic Iraq succeeds. [Clear plan? Could you please remind us of the terms of this “clear plan”]
We’re helping Iraq’s unity government grow in strength and serve its people. [It’s getting so good, that our military personnel are bringing their spouses and children over there to vacation while the soldiers are off-duty. Oh, wait. No, I was thinking about Hawaii.]
