Iraq troops coming home...? I'll believe it when I see it, and not one second before...
to say that bush has "no choice but to capitulate" smacks to me of one of two things, either incredible naivete or pathological delusion... that said, i hope i'm wrong on both counts...
granted, there may be other big, as-yet unknown, events in the cards that haven't played out yet, which could change things dramatically... however, given the state of play at this particular time, i just don't see it happening... bush is going to make it look like he's genuinely considering other options, he will make a grand show of diplomacy (like monday's meeting with Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq), but i think that's all it is - show... there is absolutely nothing substantive that bush has changed in response to public or congressional pressure in six years... i repeat, nothing... Submit To Propeller
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Robert Dreyfuss is an Alexandria, Va.-based writer specializing in politics and national security issues. He is the author of Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam (Henry Holt/Metropolitan Books, 2005), a contributing editor at The Nation, and a writer for Mother Jones, The American Prospect and Rolling Stone.
Stripped of its diplomatic weasel words, the ISG’s recommendations are a stunning blow to the administration of George W. Bush and everything it stands for. “We had to move the national debate from whether to stay the course to how do we start down the path out,” said one of the ISG’s commission members, according to The New York Times.
Faced with the ISG consensus, backed by a determined Democratic majority in Congress that was catapulted into power by an American electorate sick of the war, President Bush will have no choice but to capitulate. Early in 2007, American troops will start to come home.
granted, there may be other big, as-yet unknown, events in the cards that haven't played out yet, which could change things dramatically... however, given the state of play at this particular time, i just don't see it happening... bush is going to make it look like he's genuinely considering other options, he will make a grand show of diplomacy (like monday's meeting with Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq), but i think that's all it is - show... there is absolutely nothing substantive that bush has changed in response to public or congressional pressure in six years... i repeat, nothing... Submit To Propeller
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posted by profmarcus at
12/02/2006
