Posted on 12/06/2006 2:06:31 PM PST by Sabramerican
JOHN Bolton's resignation as the American ambassador to the United Nations makes it official: The Bush administration is now drifting idly toward a mixture of centrism and impotence.
In less than a month, two of President Bush's stronger and more independent aides - Donald Rumsfeld and Bolton - have been dispatched. Rumsfeld's designated successor, former CIA head Robert Gates, is a leading member of the Beltway's permanent bureaucracy.
The administration seems to be waiting for the Baker-Hamilton commission of old Washington hands to dictate U.S. policy on Iraq. Leaks from the commission suggest it will recommend a gradual U.S. withdrawal camouflaged by negotiations with Iran and Syria over a new Mideast grand bargain.
All of this feeds an exaggerated defeatism in the United States over Iraq.
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Rumsfeld's abrupt firing was an act of flagrant disloyalty to a loyal subordinate. The defense secretary had made his share of mistakes - notably, his failure to crush looting immediately after the fall of Baghdad - but he had followed the president's policy faithfully.
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We don't know for certain the reasons for Bolton's departure: Either the White House wasn't prepared to fight for him, or he was no longer prepared to lend his voice to the diplomatic charade over Iran and North Korea. Either way, his departure demonstrates timidity on the administration's part. The net result will be that Bush has one less loyal subordinate in the shrinking ranks of his own administration.
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I hate traitors.
That right there is going to leave a mark. No equivocating whatsoever. Lost. As in defeat. But the upside is that somebody might spin it to political advantage. Abhorrently disingenuous.
Neither do I.
Iraq isn't a failure.......it's a failure in the sense if the mass media (again) dictates what is success or not.
World War II would be a failure according to those types.
Provide a link or apologize. I am not bullsh!tting.
We don't know for certain the reasons for Bolton's departure
Gee ya think it might have something too do with the fact that my mother had a better chance of getting confirmed? And she's been dead for ten years.
I was just reading over at NRO and this IS funny:
Vote of Thanks [John Derbyshire]
On behalf of all low-WQ (that's Wonk Quotient) sluggards, I'd like to extend heartfelt thanks to Rich and the others who went through the trouble of reading through that ISG report, so the rest of us don't have to.
It seems the only thing I would have learned from reading it is that what G.B. Shaw called "the great and the good"—the likes of Sandra Day O'Connor, James Baker, etc.—are not actually very smart, and rarely have anything interesting or useful to say.
Which I already knew.
Posted at 6:25 PM
You are cute when you are mad. Worm.
....inasmuch as dictating is what they love, I would call them dictators.
I am going to try to brace myself.
LOL! And so true!
I'm familiar with your posts over the years; I would suggest that the ghouls about to take over our government would be a more appropriate target for your vitriol.
We should start a club the I'm OUTRAGED at President Bush club.
what's up, you bring the coffee
txrangerette you bring the dounuts
Mo1 and I will show up and provide the class
We could have secret handshakes and everything!
Which is telling; perhaps I'm wrong, but I think Bolton was doing a fine job.
.....of course, talent never matters much to liberals; if it's 'johnny commie', he's all right with them.
Howling isn't this overused statement where you just want to say "Yes, we could all get along if it wasn't for some blank..blank that doesn't have anything better to do but stir up blank.. all the time"?
Oh, how I hate it when someone is loosing the argument and tries to end it with that statement.
Glad to:
Sure thing. $300 Billion, another 400,000 active duty troops, and more Pentagon spending will fix everything now.
You just keep talking, Butch.
The next two years are going to be more important than people realize; we cut and run, or fight the good fight.
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