Thursday, June 21, 2007
The Splurge
I love the smell of death in the morning... smells like hubris with just a hint of desperation.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Just Say No
Hopefully, having faced the slings and arrows for the past six years, somebody on Tony's team will tell him, this is a really, really bad idea.
However, given Tony's meglomaniacal thirst for attention, he may just completely ignore them and accept this very high profile yet ultimately thankless task.
I mean, what's two more years of having the sh*t kicked out of you, when compared to all that face time.
However, given Tony's meglomaniacal thirst for attention, he may just completely ignore them and accept this very high profile yet ultimately thankless task.
I mean, what's two more years of having the sh*t kicked out of you, when compared to all that face time.
Sir Salman
My sensativity button has, strangely enough, been acting up lately. My sanctimony sensors however, have been working fine.
Tasnim Aslam, of Pakistan's Foreign Ministry, told journalists in Islamabad: "Salman Rushdie has been a controversial figure who is known less for his literary contribution and more for his offensive and insulting writing which deeply hurts the sentiments of Muslims all over the world. Conferment of a knighthood on Salman Rushdie shows an utter lack of sensitivity on the part of the British government."
The Independent UK, 6/20/07
I would say to Mr. Aslam that in the west Sir Salman is known more for his literary contributions and less for his offensive and insulting writing.
His accolades include:
James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Fiction)
Arts Council Writers' Award
English-Speaking Union Award
Booker of Bookers or the best novel among the Booker Prize winners for Fiction
Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger
Whitbread Novel Award (twice)
Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Children's Fiction
Kurt Tucholsky Prize (Sweden)
Prix Colette (Switzerland)
State Prize for Literature (Austria)
Author of the Year (British Book Awards)
Author of the Year (Germany)
Mantua Prize (Italy)
Premio Grinzane Cavour (Italy)
Hutch Crossword Fiction Prize (India)
India Abroad Lifetime Achievement Award (USA)
Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in Cultural Humanism (Harvard University)
Aristeion Prize (European Union)
That a few 'government sanctioned' rent-a-crowd crazies hit the streets at any perceived slight against Islam by the west is becoming really tiresome.
Tasnim Aslam, of Pakistan's Foreign Ministry, told journalists in Islamabad: "Salman Rushdie has been a controversial figure who is known less for his literary contribution and more for his offensive and insulting writing which deeply hurts the sentiments of Muslims all over the world. Conferment of a knighthood on Salman Rushdie shows an utter lack of sensitivity on the part of the British government."
The Independent UK, 6/20/07
I would say to Mr. Aslam that in the west Sir Salman is known more for his literary contributions and less for his offensive and insulting writing.
His accolades include:
James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Fiction)
Arts Council Writers' Award
English-Speaking Union Award
Booker of Bookers or the best novel among the Booker Prize winners for Fiction
Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger
Whitbread Novel Award (twice)
Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Children's Fiction
Kurt Tucholsky Prize (Sweden)
Prix Colette (Switzerland)
State Prize for Literature (Austria)
Author of the Year (British Book Awards)
Author of the Year (Germany)
Mantua Prize (Italy)
Premio Grinzane Cavour (Italy)
Hutch Crossword Fiction Prize (India)
India Abroad Lifetime Achievement Award (USA)
Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in Cultural Humanism (Harvard University)
Aristeion Prize (European Union)
That a few 'government sanctioned' rent-a-crowd crazies hit the streets at any perceived slight against Islam by the west is becoming really tiresome.
Disgusted of Buffalo
I am content that this man will spend the rest of his days rotting in a prison. What I am disgusted about is that the Buffalo news quotes only Dr. Slepians wife in defence of the conviction whilst quoting two, including one convicted of hiding Kopp during his stint on the run, nutjobs defending this idiot of a man.
Kopp’s supporters outside the federal courthouse rejected that theory, calling Kopp a nonviolent man and repeating his assertions that he intended only to wound Slepian so he no longer could perform abortions.
Joan Andrews Bell, a prominent figure in the anti-abortion movement, described herself as a pacifist but said she believed Kopp took a number of steps to avoid killing Slepian and injuring anyone else.
How can you call yourself a pacifist and then defend someone who aimed, shot and killed a highly respected and well liked human being with a high powered rifle. The contadiction is staggering, the logic... manifestly lacking.
Kopp’s supporters outside the federal courthouse rejected that theory, calling Kopp a nonviolent man and repeating his assertions that he intended only to wound Slepian so he no longer could perform abortions.
Joan Andrews Bell, a prominent figure in the anti-abortion movement, described herself as a pacifist but said she believed Kopp took a number of steps to avoid killing Slepian and injuring anyone else.
How can you call yourself a pacifist and then defend someone who aimed, shot and killed a highly respected and well liked human being with a high powered rifle. The contadiction is staggering, the logic... manifestly lacking.
Cuckoo
Many of the Old World species and some New World species are brood parasites, laying their eggs in the nests of other birds.
The Cuckoo
Bloomberg leaves the GOP but, for most of us, he was only in it for the opportunities it afforded him. It would be hard for me to vote for someone who's political ambition transcends their political convictions. Bloomberg, although a fair administrator, lacks a clearly defined set of principles that would allow me to actually figure him out. He brings to the table only an obscured picture of a man who will feather whatever politically expedient nest will further his own designs.
I suppose, in this day and age, those traits could be construed as the political norm, a necessary skill set that all the leading candidates have displayed or utilized at one time or another but, with the leading democratic candidates I at least can find common ground with most of their positions, with Bloomberg, I would if I could, but I can't.
The Cuckoo
Bloomberg leaves the GOP but, for most of us, he was only in it for the opportunities it afforded him. It would be hard for me to vote for someone who's political ambition transcends their political convictions. Bloomberg, although a fair administrator, lacks a clearly defined set of principles that would allow me to actually figure him out. He brings to the table only an obscured picture of a man who will feather whatever politically expedient nest will further his own designs.
I suppose, in this day and age, those traits could be construed as the political norm, a necessary skill set that all the leading candidates have displayed or utilized at one time or another but, with the leading democratic candidates I at least can find common ground with most of their positions, with Bloomberg, I would if I could, but I can't.
Monday, June 18, 2007
Brownshirt
Let's just put this out there, see how it flies, we can always disavow ourselves later but, the slur is now in the public domain and that is just how we want it.
How very Christian of them.
How very Christian of them.
Friday, June 15, 2007
Slammer Libby
I'm not one to gloat, I genuinely feel that Scoot committed a somewhat honorable, if misguided and ultimately criminal, act. My problem is with the cabal's peculiar and specific code of honor. And how criticism, of any kind, addles their response mechanisms. If this shiny gem of a scandal proves anything, it proves that this was a case of classic over reaction to a situation where, of all things, vengeance, pay-back, political assassination, call it what you will was unnecessary. That they went to such lengths to discredit one of their own and then attempted to cover up and remove themselves from the process by means of denial, obfuscation and deceit speaks volumes about this administrations immaturity and their over-simplistic, flawed decision making process.
That Scooter was willing to lie to and obstruct an FBI investigation with the express intent of protecting his bosses from having to tell the truth is ludicrously juvenile thinking. Unfortunately this kind of thinking is rampant in the Bush administration, where a twisted loyalty system governs over logic and principle. That loyalty only goes so far though because, ultimately their code of honor is based on the singular act of self preservation. As with the Gonzalez situation, they allow this poor, out-of-his-depth, hack to twist in the wind in order to protect the inner circle.
What motivates these second tier dispensibles to such blind loyalty is beyond me. They will eventually and inevitably be tossed aside as circumstances dictate and most probably be ridiculed all the way out by party members, right wing pundits and wingnuttia in general. That kind of humiliation must be tough even for a dyed in the wool neocon apparatchik to take but, take it they do. There must be some big golden parachutes out there in repugland.
But Scooter now makes the ultimate sacrifice, he will go to jail, his humiliation complete and sweeping and for what? To protect the men who allowed him to go through this ordeal, who's orders he was undertaking, who watch from the sidelines, silent as his life and career go down the toilet. That to me is not loyalty, it's idiocy, it's stark, raving madness. Pardon or no pardon, Scooter's reputation can never be rehabilitated, he will always be associated with scandal, his image etched into the pantheon of National Enquirer front pages, poor bugger! Telling the truth, though apparently inconceivable, would have made for very different headlines.
That Scooter was willing to lie to and obstruct an FBI investigation with the express intent of protecting his bosses from having to tell the truth is ludicrously juvenile thinking. Unfortunately this kind of thinking is rampant in the Bush administration, where a twisted loyalty system governs over logic and principle. That loyalty only goes so far though because, ultimately their code of honor is based on the singular act of self preservation. As with the Gonzalez situation, they allow this poor, out-of-his-depth, hack to twist in the wind in order to protect the inner circle.
What motivates these second tier dispensibles to such blind loyalty is beyond me. They will eventually and inevitably be tossed aside as circumstances dictate and most probably be ridiculed all the way out by party members, right wing pundits and wingnuttia in general. That kind of humiliation must be tough even for a dyed in the wool neocon apparatchik to take but, take it they do. There must be some big golden parachutes out there in repugland.
But Scooter now makes the ultimate sacrifice, he will go to jail, his humiliation complete and sweeping and for what? To protect the men who allowed him to go through this ordeal, who's orders he was undertaking, who watch from the sidelines, silent as his life and career go down the toilet. That to me is not loyalty, it's idiocy, it's stark, raving madness. Pardon or no pardon, Scooter's reputation can never be rehabilitated, he will always be associated with scandal, his image etched into the pantheon of National Enquirer front pages, poor bugger! Telling the truth, though apparently inconceivable, would have made for very different headlines.
Miss-iles
The US is still intent on deployment of it's European missile shield and NATO has given its guarded approval of the scheme. It's hardly surprising that NATO would get behind this, they are, after all, an extension of the US military industrial complex only with a different name.
That the missile shield is still unproven technology, costs a bloody awful amount of money and is designed to protect Europe from threats that don't even exist, was not mentioned.
That the missile shield is still unproven technology, costs a bloody awful amount of money and is designed to protect Europe from threats that don't even exist, was not mentioned.
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Mittens II
By definition, all the large world religious movements could be described as cults, whether orthodox or sectarian, even atheism could be described as the cult of empirical evidence. It's just some are more culty than others. The OED defines the word cult as follows:
cult
1 a system of religious worship directed towards a particular figure or object.
2 a small religious group regarded as strange or as imposing excessive control over members.
3 something popular or fashionable among a particular section of society.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia.
It is with the sectarian religions, like the LDS, that one finds the unhinged opposition of the christian orthodoxies at its most vehement. That Joseph Smith was a bone fide snake oil salesman and charlatan there can be no doubt, but the same could be said, at the time, of Martin Luther and subsequent heretical idealists. Just a few years after the death of Jesus, his followers were persecuted, ridiculed and 'martyred' by the orthodoxy of those times. They were, as far as everyone else was concerned, a bunch of cultist losers with a blithe, incoherent message of universal love and salvation (boy, was that ever twisted).
Unfortunately, for the early leaders of Christianity, nobody, apart from the Jews - another cult - was particularily concerned with salvation, in fact the underlying message to the pantheists seemed to be - have a diabolically good time now and have a diabolically bad time later, heaven was the exclusive domain of the gods, so don't worry, be diabolical. Of course that had to change if religious power was to be consolidated and exploited. Monotheism held out the best hope for the emperors and priests of the time so Christianity was embraced and organized for the funneling of cash from and the stabilization of the masses, in return for their hard earned cash and unquestioning devotion to church and state they would receive an afterlife.
Therefore, given its fractal, handcrafted beginnings it is not surprising that schisms appeared in the early church and throughout it's chequered past as each cult, along economic, philosophic or nationalistic lines primarily, fought for their share of the take by offering varying degrees of pleasure and pain as motivation for feilty or as a repercussion for heresy.
Under successive kings, popes and bishops informed of the ramifications of rocking the boat, the status quo remained prevelant for centuries with little in the way of major change, the protestant schisms were intellectually driven rather than based on some new heretical behavior or system of belief, the catholics were riven by long standing feuds and continental divides but practice, unto this day, almost identical rites.
So when something new comes along, it will attract the attention of not only a now skeptical public but a collusive monopoly of parties extremely hostile to change and inclusion. The LDS stands as a prime example of this argument, they will never be accepted by the established churches, even though the LDS is itself well established, because to do so would mean not only having to embrace Joseph Smith and his preposterous canon but also provide access for future mormon incursions into the diminishing pool that is the convinceable bretheren.
Mitt will have to deal with this, for him to be elected he needs the support of the christian right, because he has pretty much abandoned the center, and that would take a gigantic leap of faith, so to speak, on their behalf. It would mean accepting what for most of them is an aberration. Mitt may lead in some polls but I would like to see the demographics, I personally don't think the monolithic base has broken for anyone yet especially Mitt and they are the ones who will be struggling with this. The wingnuts may like Mitts extreme and increasingly bizare rhetoric right now but they would be much more comfortable with a Fred Thompson or a Rudy rather than having to even think about religion come election day, for them, much like in early christendom it is a tool, a means to an end - exclusive power - not a way of life.
cult
1 a system of religious worship directed towards a particular figure or object.
2 a small religious group regarded as strange or as imposing excessive control over members.
3 something popular or fashionable among a particular section of society.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia.
It is with the sectarian religions, like the LDS, that one finds the unhinged opposition of the christian orthodoxies at its most vehement. That Joseph Smith was a bone fide snake oil salesman and charlatan there can be no doubt, but the same could be said, at the time, of Martin Luther and subsequent heretical idealists. Just a few years after the death of Jesus, his followers were persecuted, ridiculed and 'martyred' by the orthodoxy of those times. They were, as far as everyone else was concerned, a bunch of cultist losers with a blithe, incoherent message of universal love and salvation (boy, was that ever twisted).
Unfortunately, for the early leaders of Christianity, nobody, apart from the Jews - another cult - was particularily concerned with salvation, in fact the underlying message to the pantheists seemed to be - have a diabolically good time now and have a diabolically bad time later, heaven was the exclusive domain of the gods, so don't worry, be diabolical. Of course that had to change if religious power was to be consolidated and exploited. Monotheism held out the best hope for the emperors and priests of the time so Christianity was embraced and organized for the funneling of cash from and the stabilization of the masses, in return for their hard earned cash and unquestioning devotion to church and state they would receive an afterlife.
Therefore, given its fractal, handcrafted beginnings it is not surprising that schisms appeared in the early church and throughout it's chequered past as each cult, along economic, philosophic or nationalistic lines primarily, fought for their share of the take by offering varying degrees of pleasure and pain as motivation for feilty or as a repercussion for heresy.
Under successive kings, popes and bishops informed of the ramifications of rocking the boat, the status quo remained prevelant for centuries with little in the way of major change, the protestant schisms were intellectually driven rather than based on some new heretical behavior or system of belief, the catholics were riven by long standing feuds and continental divides but practice, unto this day, almost identical rites.
So when something new comes along, it will attract the attention of not only a now skeptical public but a collusive monopoly of parties extremely hostile to change and inclusion. The LDS stands as a prime example of this argument, they will never be accepted by the established churches, even though the LDS is itself well established, because to do so would mean not only having to embrace Joseph Smith and his preposterous canon but also provide access for future mormon incursions into the diminishing pool that is the convinceable bretheren.
Mitt will have to deal with this, for him to be elected he needs the support of the christian right, because he has pretty much abandoned the center, and that would take a gigantic leap of faith, so to speak, on their behalf. It would mean accepting what for most of them is an aberration. Mitt may lead in some polls but I would like to see the demographics, I personally don't think the monolithic base has broken for anyone yet especially Mitt and they are the ones who will be struggling with this. The wingnuts may like Mitts extreme and increasingly bizare rhetoric right now but they would be much more comfortable with a Fred Thompson or a Rudy rather than having to even think about religion come election day, for them, much like in early christendom it is a tool, a means to an end - exclusive power - not a way of life.
In Fatwa News Today...
More old white men telling women what they should and should not do with their bodies and at the same time ostracizing an organization that has done nothing but good and remains a butress to repression worldwide. Something the catholic church, given it's ties to fascist and repressive regimes throughout history, could learn from.
The catholic church has been steering a course toward ultraconservatism in an effort to win back it's aging benefactor base after a series of scandals, legal improprieties and financial hanky-panky, it is their belief that by appealing to the most intolerant, sexist, fearfilled bigots it can find it may get the religious right vote in the next election. Sorry... that's Guilliani, nobody besides 600 or so fat old white men in frocks gets to vote on the next pontificator. As feudal autocracies go it's a doozy.
Now, if they could just get back to tending to their flock and trying to actually abide by the word of Christ, I might have some grudging respect for them, until that time, which will never come, they can suck my sceptre.
The catholic church has been steering a course toward ultraconservatism in an effort to win back it's aging benefactor base after a series of scandals, legal improprieties and financial hanky-panky, it is their belief that by appealing to the most intolerant, sexist, fearfilled bigots it can find it may get the religious right vote in the next election. Sorry... that's Guilliani, nobody besides 600 or so fat old white men in frocks gets to vote on the next pontificator. As feudal autocracies go it's a doozy.
Now, if they could just get back to tending to their flock and trying to actually abide by the word of Christ, I might have some grudging respect for them, until that time, which will never come, they can suck my sceptre.
The Splurge
Those Trotskyites at the Pentagon must really hate America.
They must not have gotten the Bush/Cheney/Murdoch memo about rainbows, butterflies and bunny rabbits.
Neither did Professor Cole but he's always wrong! And I reiterate;
"...as Orwell's 1984 reminds us: "War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength."
They must not have gotten the Bush/Cheney/Murdoch memo about rainbows, butterflies and bunny rabbits.
Neither did Professor Cole but he's always wrong! And I reiterate;
"...as Orwell's 1984 reminds us: "War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength."
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Partners In Crime
The Iraqi parliament mirrors it's creators minds... inept, dysfunctional, morally bankrupt and driven by personal greed.
With the Iraqi parliament being a mere extension of the Oval Office, should we have expected anything other than complete failure?
Meanwhile, Iraq inexoriably slides into failed state status and captain codpiece fixates on a fake immigration crisis in a last ditch attempt to prove his relevance.
With the Iraqi parliament being a mere extension of the Oval Office, should we have expected anything other than complete failure?
Meanwhile, Iraq inexoriably slides into failed state status and captain codpiece fixates on a fake immigration crisis in a last ditch attempt to prove his relevance.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Democracy
Bush goes to the Hill, meets the republican minority that is mostly opposed to his immigration reforms, nothing concrete comes out of it.
Trent Lott, a man who's active gray matter can be measured only in miligrams expounds:
Senator Lott said that today’s discussion with the president illustrated “democracy at its best,” and that Mr. Bush indicated he “won’t sign a bad bill.”
After which, he retired to his private chambers wherein, he anticipated receipt of the bank of test results from his proctologist.
Trent Lott, a man who's active gray matter can be measured only in miligrams expounds:
Senator Lott said that today’s discussion with the president illustrated “democracy at its best,” and that Mr. Bush indicated he “won’t sign a bad bill.”
After which, he retired to his private chambers wherein, he anticipated receipt of the bank of test results from his proctologist.
Tony, Tony, Tony
Blair, much like Bush, is incapable of accepting his own role in his demise. That the press played such a huge part in his initial rise in and subsequent domination of the British political scene is paid but short shrift in Tony's tirade.
Blair was one of the first political practitioners in the modern multi-media wonkiverse. His playing of the press made politics hip again, fun for all the family, a cool diversion from the gray Major days.
Now he plays the victim card, brought down by a feral pack of sensation chasing bile mongers.
Tony... not for nothing but, everyone with an ounce of intelligence knows you were played for a fool by some of the most dangerously idiotic sociopaths on the planet. Like a lot of Bush acquaintances you were dragged into a failure of epic proportions and rather than extracating yourself and your people from it, you continued right along even after it became painfully evident that the Iraq fiasco and your righteous sounding justifications for it were fraudulant.
The press was his ally right up until the time the search for WMD in Iraq proved fruitless. There, for the first time, a compliant, one could argue a glorifying and jingoistic, press questioned Britains association with this venture and he was found wanting. When a nation needed an explanation, he gave them Bush administration talking points, that may work over here in the US where the establishment media has pretty much lost all credibility but over there the fourth estate was still a functioning and vital part of the national dialogue and they weren't convinced.
Since 2001 the political roadside has become littered with victims, discards and schills from this malicious administration, I think Tony is just bitter that his legacy, which may have been great, will be forever tarnished by his support for Bush's War but, much like Bush, rather than blame himself, he's out looking for targets.
Blair was one of the first political practitioners in the modern multi-media wonkiverse. His playing of the press made politics hip again, fun for all the family, a cool diversion from the gray Major days.
Now he plays the victim card, brought down by a feral pack of sensation chasing bile mongers.
Tony... not for nothing but, everyone with an ounce of intelligence knows you were played for a fool by some of the most dangerously idiotic sociopaths on the planet. Like a lot of Bush acquaintances you were dragged into a failure of epic proportions and rather than extracating yourself and your people from it, you continued right along even after it became painfully evident that the Iraq fiasco and your righteous sounding justifications for it were fraudulant.
The press was his ally right up until the time the search for WMD in Iraq proved fruitless. There, for the first time, a compliant, one could argue a glorifying and jingoistic, press questioned Britains association with this venture and he was found wanting. When a nation needed an explanation, he gave them Bush administration talking points, that may work over here in the US where the establishment media has pretty much lost all credibility but over there the fourth estate was still a functioning and vital part of the national dialogue and they weren't convinced.
Since 2001 the political roadside has become littered with victims, discards and schills from this malicious administration, I think Tony is just bitter that his legacy, which may have been great, will be forever tarnished by his support for Bush's War but, much like Bush, rather than blame himself, he's out looking for targets.
Loco Logo
Oh! Those Brits... the London Olympics logo is, as far as I am concerned, one of the worst pieces of design I have ever seen, 'Red' Ken Livingston, Mayor of London agrees but says in its defence:
"At a press conference with the inspectors in Canary Wharf, Mr Livingstone renewed his criticism of the logo - but conceded it may "grow on you".
He repeated his insistence that the designers should not be paid, but added: "It is a logo. It is not the meaning of life or a secret code that will identify the bloodline of Mary Magdalene. "It is a logo that will grow on you.""
The more I look at the damn thing the more bewildered I become.
Define Progress
It's a disheartening read really, when every positive is matched or bettered by a negative. Al Maliki's government reeks of inertia and irrelevance, not to mention corruption and sectarian divides.
That we send an active Admiral to do the State Departments work is a very bad sign... if we are losing the diplomatic battle and have now to resort to militaristic bullying to force Maliki's administration into action, what does that tell us?
Maliki's fragile hold on power is bolstered only by his ability to manufacture a coalition of opposing shiite factions, as that function becomes increasingly difficult in a destabilized environment you have to wonder how long Maliki's tenure will last. Afterall, he was a compromise candidate in a stormy scene of US, Kurd and Sunni disaffection at the first choice of a shiite majority exerting its political and religious mandate unaware of its proxy status.
Now that the shiites have awakened to the political realities of US fiat and fragmentation has become the new political game in town, Maliki appears out of his depth (as do most Bush administration appointees), appearing to comply with US demands and edicts on the one side whilst ruminating upon a lack of US real-politik in the region as a whole in a brazen attempt to save face with his diminishing plurality.
The surge was designed to provide political cover for, not only, Maliki and his merry band of death squad supporting, militia friendly shiite bretheren but also for captain codpiece and his not so merry band of vascillating republicans at home.
It was a desperate strategy wholly dependent on flawed analysis and simplistic reasoning and will lead us only to another crisis where, the same mistakes will be repeated.
That we send an active Admiral to do the State Departments work is a very bad sign... if we are losing the diplomatic battle and have now to resort to militaristic bullying to force Maliki's administration into action, what does that tell us?
Maliki's fragile hold on power is bolstered only by his ability to manufacture a coalition of opposing shiite factions, as that function becomes increasingly difficult in a destabilized environment you have to wonder how long Maliki's tenure will last. Afterall, he was a compromise candidate in a stormy scene of US, Kurd and Sunni disaffection at the first choice of a shiite majority exerting its political and religious mandate unaware of its proxy status.
Now that the shiites have awakened to the political realities of US fiat and fragmentation has become the new political game in town, Maliki appears out of his depth (as do most Bush administration appointees), appearing to comply with US demands and edicts on the one side whilst ruminating upon a lack of US real-politik in the region as a whole in a brazen attempt to save face with his diminishing plurality.
The surge was designed to provide political cover for, not only, Maliki and his merry band of death squad supporting, militia friendly shiite bretheren but also for captain codpiece and his not so merry band of vascillating republicans at home.
It was a desperate strategy wholly dependent on flawed analysis and simplistic reasoning and will lead us only to another crisis where, the same mistakes will be repeated.
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