Ego and Myopia In Foreign Policy

Have you noticed bush's public statements lately and his attitudes.

He started out being an absolutist who wouldn't listen to any of his generals.

And now he is sucking wind.

Why do you think that Baker got into the act. The old man's number one confidante and problem solver who bailed the old man out almost endlessly, he is being called in to do the same thing for Junior.

You can see that Bush is so frustrated because he's painted himself into an irrevocable position of inflexibility and rigidity. The way out is what he is now saying, "I will listen to my generals. If they say we do something else--or words to that effect, then we will change our strategy..." This is a far cry from what he had been saying. And had he listened to his generals all along, we would have more troops on station or we would have left already.

But we are already whispering past the grave yard. The deed that we are talking about in the future has already happened and is rapidly becoming old hat. We are in a Civil War and we have contributed to making it bloodier than it needed to be through our blindsided policies, through our support of unpopular politicians who have no loyalty, through our inability to grasp that the only real policy makers were the chieftans and the mullahs and when we ignored them, we set ourselves up for what was to come. I'm afraid that there has been too little vision on display, too little ideation, too little understanding of the culture and history of this amazingly complex area with associations that go back to pre=Christian history and too much faith in our ability to impose our will on everyone and "wing it."

Well, we can't wing it for long. And we can't operate without sound policy. And now we don't have the supporting force to back up what we declare.

The foolishness, ineptitude and incompetence of our supreme leader has been rightfully noted by the world except for us. And a change is long overdue.


Will we rise to the occasion?

Right now, it doesn't seem as if we reached the appropriate level of concern....
but that's not surprising with today's America that thinks 41 million Americans without healthcare is okay and that owing our lives to the Chinese is nothing disturbing nor the fact that we will be paying back our indebtedness for the next twenty years any reason to get upset.

Americans are really remarkable for their ability to dodge the truth and its implications.

Les Aaron