Post #99

Subject: Uh, waiting for a written apology….

Karl Rove, political super-genius, has been smoked out and gotten on the run. George W. Bush’s Brain is beating the posse out of town and heading to the Republican stronghold he built in Texas to write a book. Will he apologize for the injury he inflicted upon this country?

Yes, Rove gets credit for engineering two Presidential wins. The most generous assessment I’ve seen lately of the Bush administration is that Bush wanted to get elected but didn’t care for governing. Rove should have realized this by 2004 – his participation in the 2004 campaign was a Crime Against Our Country.

Now, we are stuck in a war that reality says was never winnable. Bush has made a mistake – he followed a political theory which said that a little military pressure here or there would thwart bigger problems. Unfortunately, that political theory does not identify the “here or there” where military pressure should be applied. It is plainly obvious that Iraq was not one of those “here or theres.” I condemn Rove for not knowing this by 2004 and giving us more of the same.

The important thing now is to manage the defeat. Adding troops is certainly not the answer. We are involved in the decisive ideological struggle of our time. The War on Terror is a race against time – we need to convince those who want to do us harm that there is a better way BEFORE they do us harm. The Iraq War is NOT the War on Terror – indeed, The Iraq War is a drain on and a diversion from the War on Terror and making us less secure. Rove faces the harsh judgment of History for his role in giving us a lazy, shallow way of viewing the world.

We should leave Iraq immediately and take our lumps now. The Iraq War has created a situation where the only options are “bad” and “badder” – another day in Iraq will only make things worse as we continue to bleed, making the War on Terror longer and harder. The Iraq War itself is giving aid and comfort to the enemy – we are losing the ability to respond militarily to other threats. Bring our troops home, rest ‘em, resupply ‘em and send ‘em out to hunt down and destroy terrorist training camps and to topple governments that harbor ‘em. But Bush wants to keep digging, and Rove gave him a shovel.

The important thing now is to manage the aftermath of the greatest blunder in our history and to try to recover from Rove. At least, he didn’t create that Republican majority he wanted – indeed, Rove helped to splinter the Republicans as more and more conservatives realize that Bush’s “neo-con” is NOT conservative at all.