Getting Out is No Longer Just a Democratic Issue

Aside from the mind-boggling reports that innundate this country with images of destruction and failure and the president and McCain saying as if to mollify the public, or treat them as fools, it's okay, folks; everything is getting better, we have to seriously ask us what is the fall-out from Katrinization of the Middle East.

Well, for one, we know that the Middle East has ratcheted up its hatred of America along with most of the rest of the world; it will take us forever to mend fences here.

We have taken a land that may not have been number one on the hit parade of what a country should be and literally turned it into the land of J. Alfred Proofrock, A Wasteland extraordinaire....

For four long years, we have been told that it is necessary to eliminate terrorism.

We have not eliminated terrorism and in the process, we have not done much of anything else....
In fact, if anyone can point to anything positive that this government has accomplished for the people, not itself, I would like to know what it is...

Magicians all over the country are looking to Mr. Bush to explain how he managed to distract the American people from all their goals and objectives for six years....

And some wonder whether 9/11 was part of the trick....

Too cynical?

Please. These people invented cynical.

Les Aaron
The Armchair Curmudgeon