Al Qaeda Regains Power

Here’s why our fearless leader and his out of touch band are a danger to our security. The real enemies of America, the ones who actually did try to harm us as opposed to the Iraqis who had nothing to do with 9/11, are on the rebound in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The New York Times has the story here:Al Qaeda Chiefs Are Seen to Regain Power – New York Times

This is exactly why Bush’s personal war on Iraq is such a disaster. We have been drained of resources over the last few years in a completely avoidable conflict while Al Qaeda, et al, are restoring themselves within the safe confines of the borders of Pakistan. The debate we are all having about whether to ‘stay the course’ in Iraq is the wrong debate about the wrong subject. The whole circumstance is surrealistic. We are vexing over something that presented no threat while the real threat gathers strength.

Why? Because no one has the wherewithal to call Bush the emperor with no clothes. No one will stand up and shut him up whenever he tries to use fear as a rallying device.

I suppose that’s unfair: there are plenty of people who have shouted about the stupidity of our Iraq policy [is there one?] and its cause of our distraction. The problem is that Bush has managed to politicize national security so that none [not enough?] of his Republican supporters can credibly come out tear him down from his self-appointed perch. He is wrongheaded and arrogant, and he is clinging to his foolhardy Iraq war as a badge of personal worth. He has sold us clear down the river and is allowing our real foe to re-organize safely behind the political gridlock that exists in Washington. A gridlock that Bush encouraged so that he would not have to admit he was wrong. He has gone on record as saying that the whole mess will be the next president’s problem.

That’s breathtakingly and wilfully childish.

He has played at being president and the cost is our security.

This is not about being Democratic or Republican, it is about protecting America. Bush is failing. He is derelict because he hasn’t the personal fortitude to say he was wrong about Iraq.

Yet here he is on President’s Day comparing the so-called war on terror [how is it possible to wage war on an abstract noun?] to the War of Independence.

Washington must be turning in his grave to hear his name associated with the wholesale degradation of the standards he set himself.

As King Henry II said: “Who will rid us of this man?”