Nurse Ratched points us to this Onion article which, in part, echos William Rasberry in the Washington Post and Josh Marshall in the Washington Review.
The Iraq adventure will create more problems for the US and this is just what the doctor ordered: a never ending war against continually changing foes; lockstep ‘patriotism’ leading to 4 more years in office which should be enough time to close the polling booths.
Today TheTalkingDog presented us with his state of the world address. It seems a fair assessment and should be read in conjunction with Pat Riotic’s message and the dog’s substantive supporting documentation.
Emma suggests, in commenting on this Slate article, that the Pentagon behaves like a six year old child. In the same article General Van Riper (there seem to be hundreds of these generals) comments on the failed war game exercise (one that set much basis for the current ‘effort’):
Finally, Van Riper quit the game in protest, so as not to be associated with what would be misleading results. As he explained in his e-mail, “You don’t come to a conclusion beforehand and then work your way to that conclusion. You see how the thing plays out.”
There is no surprize here. And as I previously noted it is the ongoing behavior of the Bush deministration.
If you arrive here and still find this in a premature state that is because Modulator’s new home is still under construction and time is not permitting me to complete Phase 1 quite as quick as I had hoped. Modulator’s other home is here. I won’t be doing much posting until I get things up on this new site.
Blogging is pretty much on hold for a while as I move off Blogspot to a new host and migrate from Blogger to Movable Type. This is taking me longer than it might for someone with more time available and/or more experience installing applications in a Linux/Apache environment.
I still have a bit I need to finish:
Move all posts to new site
Compete rev 1 of my new tempate
Experiement with some of the Movable Type configuration options
When I get this done (maybe by this weekend) I’ll leave a pointer here to the new site.