PRESIDENCY AND MILITARY BOTH STUCK IN WONDERLAND
By Schuyler ThorpeAuthor and Political Activist
Is it too late for a refund?
Because right now we are sitting on almost $540B for the cost of the war–including the $105B Bush wants to spend for this year; plus the “surge” which he is damned determined to go through with–no matter who says what.
And even though the cost of the war keeps escalating into unheard of territories and Bush kept promising that “things will get better; you just watch and see” these last 4 years, we just don’t see any of that “good news progress” which has eluded us since this war began.
Of course, what struck me as odd over the last couple of years is how General Casey proclaimed time and again that we would be leaving Iraq by either the end of 2005 and then when that didn’t happen…?
2006.
Well, 2006 has passed and now the general is saying that most of the “surge” of troops going in may not leave Iraq until late summer–once the US military sees that “the security situation in Iraq is stable, and the people of Baghdad start feeling safe enough to come out.”
Trouble is, is that first, the security in Iraq is so out of control, pacifying the capital alone is going to take more troops than what Bush is proposing and what General Shinseki had originally abdicated for–long before we invaded Iraq on lies and grave distortions of our own available intelligence.
And secondly, making grandiose timetable declarations when the problem is more exasperated than the military will care to admit out in the open–for fear that we are indeed appearing more weaker than Gates claimed recently about the state of our own military (In regards to Iran “overplaying its hand”)– doesn’t make the reality on the ground any easier to deal with.
So what does that mean for the American public in general?
Simple.
We have a Presidency in a constant state of denial, and a military wrapped up in a constant state of delusion.
Tied together, they just created the sequel to Alice in Wonderland.
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 @ 12:37 PM
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