Political Whispers: A Look Into Today's World of Dark Politics

JUST ANOTHER “STAY THE COURSE” SPEECH

By Schuyler Thorpe
Author and Political Activist

Like the famous cowboy puppet on Howdy Doody, Bush is now looking more and more like a drunken boxer in a boxing ring: All smashed up and nowhere to go.

He sits there in a daze and wonders just who will come and rescue him.

His speech on Wednesday laid out what looked like a glorious and well-thought out plan, but many people are wondering: Why the hell didn’t he think of this sooner?

Easy.

Bush is notorious for not thinking things through ahead of time. And as such, his failed and–sometimes backwards–policy decisions have cost the United States much more than its credibility with the international community.

It has cost 3,016 lives, $530 billion dollars, and five years of wasted effort–all in a blind-sided attempt to spread “democracy” and “freedom” across the Middle East.

But now Bush is openly defying not only the American people who voted for a change, but a newly appointed Democratic Congress in his push to add a paltry 21,500 troops over the next four months just to Baghdad and the Anbar Province alone.

And if this sounds familiar it should. We tried this four times in 2005 and 2006, and the results all ended with failure.

So why is Bush persistent in following a failed course of action? Because he’s not concerned with the here and now. He’s more worried about what future historians will say about his legacy as President.

And that is a grevious fallacy in itself.

Historians in the present are already pegging his 8 year tenure as either the ‘The Worst Presidency in US History’, ‘The Dark Side Administration’, or ‘The Lame Duck Years’.

History's already called the shots well in advance, and only in ten years, we will already have the full picture to the Bush years in Technicolor or IMAX.

But why should we all wait until the man is dead to have figured this one out? Once again, Bush has yet to catch onto that fact.

And while he does, America must now wait 3-4 months to see if his latest (and last) gamble will finally pay off.

But word to the wise: I wouldn’t hedge any bets on this working out either. Safe money would be on how we will be able to get out, not stay forever in a never ending quagmire-slash-civil war.

Schuyler Thorpe is an author, a political activist, and a frequent letter writer to The Everett Herald of Snohomish County. He can be reached at: starchildalpha1@yahoo.com

posted by Schuyler Thorpe @ 8:39 PM