Since 8/17/02 there seems to be a change in the air that is like a kick in the groin.
Chris Matthews had an interesting piece today. I rarely agree with him but he did mention that support for an Iraqi attack is wanning in the polls. And sadly he is right. The problem is that Bush 2 is sadled with a reality of of implementing a New World Order, but not one exactly envisioned by his father, Brent Scowcroft, or the latest voice of dissent from the right and the former Bush 1 administration, James Baker III.
I fail to understand why these folks are airing their dissents in public, and on the New York Times editorial page.
Could it be that Clintoon isn't the only one worried about his legacy? Maybe Bush 1 and Babs are feeling a little uneasy about their cozyness with the house of Saud. Maybe Baker And Scowcroft are doing a little CYA in the same vein as Madeline Notsobright earlier this year.
The president should not be intimidated by his father's cronies. Even if Dad picks up the phone to W to get him to listen to these has-beens, he should reply, "Dad, I love you, but your not responsible for the safety of of the American people, I am!, Mr. Rumsfeld, Lets Roll"
A homocidal madman has access to the full resources of a sovereign state, which he has committed to building a vast war machine, while his people starve to death. He's shown that he'll overrun and subjugate peaceful neighbors, if he calculates that he can get away with it. Huge numbers of his own people can die as a result, and it doesn't seem to cause him the slightest remorse or temper his ambitions. Defectors from his regime detail his determined efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction and the progress he's made so far. He's demonstrated his willingness to kill large numbers of his own people with NBC weapons.
It astonishes me that we sit around waiting for him to complete his weapons development programs, while politicians babble about the Treaty of Westphalia. Have we forgotten all about Neville Chamberlain, and the madman who lulled him into signing away the Sudentenland?
It certainly was one of those defining moments, most people remember where they were when they heard that an airliner had flown into the WTC. In my youth, the defining moment was news of JFK's assassination in Dallas; for my parents ... Pearl Harbor.
On 9-11 I was driving my wife to work, as she had a flight out to the west coast that afternoon for a meeting in San Francisco. The radio station we were listening to broke into regular progamming to announce that an aircraft had flown into one of the WTC towers. I dropped my wife off and shortly after 9 AM heard that a second commercial aircraft had flown into the other WTC tower. Needless to say my wife's plans changed, however, another employee of her company who was scheduled to attend the same meeting boarded the ill fated United flight in Newark, NJ. That flight is the one that crashed near Shanksville, PA. ...