"meddling"

"Removing Sadam Hussein makes this world a better place and America a safer country." So speaks George W. Bush. And he says if he had to do it again, he would. I fear he believes this. It is possible that taking out Sadam Hussein MIGHT HAVE made the world a better place. But, looking at what has happened in Iraq, what is happening in Iraq, this is more than merely doubtful. Indeed, I believe it is the case that only 44% of Iraqis think they are better off now than under Hussein. A somewhat larger percentage thinks the U.S. should get out of Iraq, the sooner the better. As far as making America a safer country, nothing could be more nonsensical. If anything we are clearly less safe than we were before.

Condi Rice says that Iran keeps "meddling" in Iraq. According to my dictionary, meddling means, "interfere in or busy oneself unduly with others concerns." I guess meddling would not quite cover what the U.S. is doing in Iraq. Let's say violent pathological rape is more like it, a little more serious than meddling. When it comes to the U.S. I don't quite know what to make of meddling. Are we merely meddling in Lebanon? Syria? North Korea? Palestine? Venezuela? Chile? Ukraine? Uzbekistan? etc., etc. Does it not occur to any of the pea-brained neocons that it is really not our business to be constantly interfering in the affairs of everyone else on the globe? Who or what gives us the right to insist on spreading democracy around the world at the point of a gun? Nothing, of course, except for the fact that we think we have the guns to do it. But as Vietnam and Iraq have taught us, it takes more than guns. We will fail in Iraq just as we failed in Vietnam. It is inevitable.

The attempt on the part of the White House to roviate Murtha seems to have collapsed entirely. Indeed, we aren't hearing much about roviating anyone these days. It appears that the American public has now become totally fed up with this indecent, incompetent, criminal administration. It is collapsing in front of our eyes, but not fast enough to suit me.

This Republican administration would collapse much sooner if it were not for the support it is getting from Democrats: those spineless, cowardly, ineffective, timid, useless opposition figures that seem to think they have to outmachismo Republicans in order to prove they are not soft on defense. If Democrats would unite behind Murtha and Dean and actually become a genuine opposition party they would almost certainly be able to take over the Senate, if not the House. If they can't get their act together we should rename them the Pansy Party and start a meaningful third party. The time might finally be ripe.

What a hopeless bunch of both Democrats and Republicans we have managed to field. Time for entirely new teams.