Sunday, January 28, 2007
Neener-neener?
Hilary Clinton says of Bush and Iraq: “We should expect him to extricate our country from this before he leaves office.”
While I can see why she doesn't want the next president to inherit Iraq, and it is pleasing to imagine Bush alone having to shoulder the burden of his own disastrous legacy, this is a terribly foolish thing to say.
Whichever option a senator and presidential candidate supports for an exit date—immediate, phased, indefinite, never, etc.—the timing should be based on the need to address a problem of potentially incalculable dimensions, not on the convenience of the next officeholder or a child's notion of just desserts.
Compare the magnitude of the catastrophe unfolding in Iraq with the pettiness of this utterance. Is there any hope for a country that combines such grandiose militarism with such vapid leadership? ¶ 11:19 AM
While I can see why she doesn't want the next president to inherit Iraq, and it is pleasing to imagine Bush alone having to shoulder the burden of his own disastrous legacy, this is a terribly foolish thing to say.
Whichever option a senator and presidential candidate supports for an exit date—immediate, phased, indefinite, never, etc.—the timing should be based on the need to address a problem of potentially incalculable dimensions, not on the convenience of the next officeholder or a child's notion of just desserts.
Compare the magnitude of the catastrophe unfolding in Iraq with the pettiness of this utterance. Is there any hope for a country that combines such grandiose militarism with such vapid leadership? ¶ 11:19 AM
