OK, why did they wait till today for Rumsfeld to step down? It might have helped them win some elections, keep control of the Senate. Was there some sort of gamble? If so many seats are lost...
Frankly I don't think Rumsfeld is the main problem. Go higher up the food chain. I blame Cheney the most and Bush second. I'm sure Rumsfeld make some crucial errors but I don't know that troop numbers is the main one. We just had no idea how to win the hearts and minds, no idea how to nation build. We build buildings real well, but to understand how a different culture thinks...
Who cares about Rumsfelds resignation! It's almost a shrug. What's done is done, and I don't see anyone in this administration being able to extricate us with a good situation on the ground. This is like changing make-up. Sorry. There's just too much ungly underneath for it to do any
good.
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
The Election
In general I have paid little attention to this election. I take a little satisfaction that the Democrats will apparently take the House. I won't stay up to see if they take the Senate. I decided today that I would vote Republican for positions having to do with money or justice and Democrat for positions having to do with society and foreign policy (at least for now)... ish. So I suppose I'd rather the Republicans have the House and the Democrats the Senate.
But you will not find me proud of the American people today. Why? Because the same people who stupidly crammed the Congress full of Republicans last time because of Iraq are the same ones cramming the Congress full of Democrats today. Don't expect me to applaud them for something I knew three years ago. Don't expect me to think them smart when they are just as guilty as the ridiculous people they elected last time. They have no right to be angry.
The American people are just as responsible for our current situation as the government they elected while calling the rest of us stupid and unpatriotic. One week they think you're a god. The next week they stone you. One week they're laying down palm branches. The next week they want to crucify you.
But you will not find me proud of the American people today. Why? Because the same people who stupidly crammed the Congress full of Republicans last time because of Iraq are the same ones cramming the Congress full of Democrats today. Don't expect me to applaud them for something I knew three years ago. Don't expect me to think them smart when they are just as guilty as the ridiculous people they elected last time. They have no right to be angry.
The American people are just as responsible for our current situation as the government they elected while calling the rest of us stupid and unpatriotic. One week they think you're a god. The next week they stone you. One week they're laying down palm branches. The next week they want to crucify you.
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