Well, walking by it anyways... I went for a very long walk this afternoon and ended up walking by a somewhat deserted bay front. Somewhat, because there seemed to be several people sitting their cars just watching the water (waiting for the tide to come in?). It seemed a bit late for lunch, but then again, how would I know? I haven't held an office job in years.
While perusing my Blogroll, I check out Skippy the kangaroo (for those that miss the reference, you really need to visit Australia sometime - fantastic country!). It's a political blog - very left - thus comments about Bush's speech were expected. Personally, I only saw the sound bites. The way our President speaks makes me break out in hives. It's worse than Shatner in really early Star Trek episodes... But I digress. The entry was really focusing on the commentary afterwards and the drifting support for the current quagmire. I find it interesting that so few people are bringing up the idea that maybe support is waning because there is no real point. Three years ago, when this was just a quick in-and-out run, the point was WMDs. That didn't work, so someone decided that it was better to hype Saddam as the middle eastern Hitler. Sadly for our government, that failed too.
Now we're into just plain terrorism. And to be honest, Bush probably has a point. Pulling out now will give terrorist ideologues the appearance of power... which in turn could really come back to bite us in the ass, even more than it is currently. However, it's situation created by us. The administration wanted a war and now they've really got one. Congrat's to all. You got what you vote for.
BTW, tonight the BBC reported that the President's claim that the US has increased it's spending in Africa under his administration was not quite what it appeared to be. What kind of math do they teach in Texas? It must be that new "culturally sensitive math."
While perusing my Blogroll, I check out Skippy the kangaroo (for those that miss the reference, you really need to visit Australia sometime - fantastic country!). It's a political blog - very left - thus comments about Bush's speech were expected. Personally, I only saw the sound bites. The way our President speaks makes me break out in hives. It's worse than Shatner in really early Star Trek episodes... But I digress. The entry was really focusing on the commentary afterwards and the drifting support for the current quagmire. I find it interesting that so few people are bringing up the idea that maybe support is waning because there is no real point. Three years ago, when this was just a quick in-and-out run, the point was WMDs. That didn't work, so someone decided that it was better to hype Saddam as the middle eastern Hitler. Sadly for our government, that failed too.
Now we're into just plain terrorism. And to be honest, Bush probably has a point. Pulling out now will give terrorist ideologues the appearance of power... which in turn could really come back to bite us in the ass, even more than it is currently. However, it's situation created by us. The administration wanted a war and now they've really got one. Congrat's to all. You got what you vote for.
BTW, tonight the BBC reported that the President's claim that the US has increased it's spending in Africa under his administration was not quite what it appeared to be. What kind of math do they teach in Texas? It must be that new "culturally sensitive math."
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Then again, conditions are much worse in some parts of Africa.
But . . . we actually *caused* the situation in Iraq.
And in Africa, we're merely passively letting it happen.