Topics of discussion have seemed kind of tame lately, which surprises me considering the hot button issue of George W. Bush, the masterful illusionist that's been all over the news this week.
As I was driving home, I listened to a brief commentary from Ted Koppel on NPR about President Bush's recent address to the nation regarding his latest "strategy" to provide a surge of American troops into Iraq. Buried about two-thirds of the way into the address are plans to place Patriot missiles and an extra aircraft carrier in the region, which in the context of other statements in the speech about how Iran is undermining the efforts towards a stable government in Iraq, Koppel suggested might be interpreted as early signs that the current administration is laying the groundwork for a war with Iran at some point in the near future.
Considering some of the recent crackdowns on Iranians within Iraq recently, I'm not sure whether to call Ted Koppel brilliant or paranoid.
Friday, January 12, 2007
And just like that, he made North Korea disappear again...
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I don't think that Bush wants to go to war with Iran like he did with Iraq, but I'm afraid the prevailing military opinion might state that victory in Iraq won't be attainable if Iran is allowed to continue aiding the bad guys. If that happens, we will first step up the posturing and rhetoric, and if that doesn't get Tehran to back down (which I doubt it would), then millitary strikes in Iran may follow.
Then, we have Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, and Iran in which we are simultaneously engaged. To the average middle easterner, especially the Muslim ones, it indeed would look as if we are trying to take over the middle east and/or snuff out Islam. That's a terrorist recruiter's wet dream.
I'm to the point now where I think Bush should just say, "Hey look, Saddam is dead. Iraq is stabilized, and Al-Qaeda has been crippled. Yes it is, shut up. We won. Let's go home." You know that the Fox Propaganda Network would parrot him, and shout down any and all guests who came to rebut the proclamation on their shows. If we could get CNN to just bite the bullet on this one, maybe we could sell it and get out of the middle east.
We'll just pretend that we won. It worked for Saddam in the first Gulf War.
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