Forget September, look to December
By Libby
Rozius reaches behind the paywall to give us poor folks a look at Frank Rich's latest op-ed. Rich looks into the future and sees what most of us do. You don't need a crystal ball to figure out there won't be any real report on progress from Petraeus in September. He'll proclaim it's too early to assess the success of the surge, but that we're making baby steps towards progress and if we just give it one more Friedman unit, this time for sure things will get better.
Rich further predicts the administration will use the anniversary of 9/11 to make the bad news more palatable to the public. He's right about that I'm sure, but I think he's misplaced his hope in the GOP's John Warner to rescue us from this endless Catch-22 of promises. I have to agree with Big Tent Democrat on this one. We might as well be waiting for Godot.
As Rich well notes, "The best way to honor the sixth anniversary of 9/11 will be to at last disarm a president who continues to squander countless lives in the names of those voiceless American dead." I wouldn't hold my breath on that though. Personally, my hopes are pinned on the Iraq parliament.
If they go through with blocking "the extension of the U.N. mandate under which coalition troops now remain in Iraq when it comes up for renewal in December," all other arguments will become moot. The occupation will become illegal under international law. Maybe the Iraqis will give us what our own alleged representatives can't manage to deliver. A graceful exit out of this hellish mess.
Rozius reaches behind the paywall to give us poor folks a look at Frank Rich's latest op-ed. Rich looks into the future and sees what most of us do. You don't need a crystal ball to figure out there won't be any real report on progress from Petraeus in September. He'll proclaim it's too early to assess the success of the surge, but that we're making baby steps towards progress and if we just give it one more Friedman unit, this time for sure things will get better.
Rich further predicts the administration will use the anniversary of 9/11 to make the bad news more palatable to the public. He's right about that I'm sure, but I think he's misplaced his hope in the GOP's John Warner to rescue us from this endless Catch-22 of promises. I have to agree with Big Tent Democrat on this one. We might as well be waiting for Godot.
As Rich well notes, "The best way to honor the sixth anniversary of 9/11 will be to at last disarm a president who continues to squander countless lives in the names of those voiceless American dead." I wouldn't hold my breath on that though. Personally, my hopes are pinned on the Iraq parliament.
If they go through with blocking "the extension of the U.N. mandate under which coalition troops now remain in Iraq when it comes up for renewal in December," all other arguments will become moot. The occupation will become illegal under international law. Maybe the Iraqis will give us what our own alleged representatives can't manage to deliver. A graceful exit out of this hellish mess.
posted by Libby Spencer at 3:46 PM
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