Adrift in late 2007
Leaving aside reports, testimony, politicians and generals, if there are "no good options in Iraq,", shouldn't we choose an option that allows us to end our involvement (hopefully sooner rather than later?)
After all the Sturm und Drang, and after conceding that we aren't going to waltz out tomorrow, does anyone actually understand our long-term policy in the Middle East? The whole "empire" thing tends to not work out so well. That's not a talking point, it's an incontrovertible historical fact born out too many times to list.
Since little is being said about Israeli-Palestinian relations, the radicals in Saudi Arabia or (further away) Pakistan, and U.S. energy policy is essentially to consume as much as we can afford, we don't really seem to have a broad idea of what to do. Note to the neocons: supporting Likud is not a comprehensive foreign policy.
So it's more improvisation.
But go buy something, preferably on credit. That will help.
After all the Sturm und Drang, and after conceding that we aren't going to waltz out tomorrow, does anyone actually understand our long-term policy in the Middle East? The whole "empire" thing tends to not work out so well. That's not a talking point, it's an incontrovertible historical fact born out too many times to list.
Since little is being said about Israeli-Palestinian relations, the radicals in Saudi Arabia or (further away) Pakistan, and U.S. energy policy is essentially to consume as much as we can afford, we don't really seem to have a broad idea of what to do. Note to the neocons: supporting Likud is not a comprehensive foreign policy.
So it's more improvisation.
But go buy something, preferably on credit. That will help.
