Hillary's new Iraq plan has all the clarity, simplicity and political appeal of her old health insurance plan. Her New York Times Interview: Questioning Bush's tactics but not the premises of his policy, the plan triangulates by half steps and half measures to perpetuate the morass we find ourselves in. It seems destined to fail. Like her ill-fated health insurance proposal of 1993, it offers bewildering complexity when bold initiatives are called for. If, by some miracle, the plan survives the Democratic primaries, it would most likely destroy any administration that tried to implement it. The American people want out of Iraq, and this doesn't do it.
Before Hillary and the other Democrats totally take over ownership of this war, they need to realize that the real issue facing the American public is no longer just Iraq. The real issue is whether we should get out of the business of empire before we expend even more treasure, both human and financial, destroy our democracy, and bankrupt our nation.
No amount of intellectual capacity... and I agree that Hillary has plenty... can grant a person the fundamental understanding that empire is and always has been disaster for the imperialist, and that war is and always has been tragedy for every family touched by it.
The neocons, having neither experienced war themselves nor been touched by it, lack not only that understanding but also the capacity to reach it. I can only hope Hillary has the capacity, and reaches the understanding, before it is too late for thousands or millions more souls.
I hope you are right, Steve. Because articles I've read suggest the Democrats will not be able to leave or worse, will be unwilling to leave Iraq if they take the presidency.
All this agony for oil and the strategic chess game of world domination.
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Hillary's new Iraq plan has all the clarity, simplicity and political appeal of her old health insurance plan. Her New York Times Interview: Questioning Bush's tactics but not the premises of his policy, the plan triangulates by half steps and half measures to perpetuate the morass we find ourselves in. It seems destined to fail. Like her ill-fated health insurance proposal of 1993, it offers bewildering complexity when bold initiatives are called for. If, by some miracle, the plan survives the Democratic primaries, it would most likely destroy any administration that tried to implement it. The American people want out of Iraq, and this doesn't do it.
Before Hillary and the other Democrats totally take over ownership of this war, they need to realize that the real issue facing the American public is no longer just Iraq. The real issue is whether we should get out of the business of empire before we expend even more treasure, both human and financial, destroy our democracy, and bankrupt our nation.
I don't understand her. Is she showing she's as tough as any man, any Republican? Would she change her tune once in the White House?
I know she is brilliant, but I have no clue what she is about.
Brilliance does not equal judgment.
No amount of intellectual capacity... and I agree that Hillary has plenty... can grant a person the fundamental understanding that empire is and always has been disaster for the imperialist, and that war is and always has been tragedy for every family touched by it.
The neocons, having neither experienced war themselves nor been touched by it, lack not only that understanding but also the capacity to reach it. I can only hope Hillary has the capacity, and reaches the understanding, before it is too late for thousands or millions more souls.
I hope you are right, Steve. Because articles I've read suggest the Democrats will not be able to leave or worse, will be unwilling to leave Iraq if they take the presidency.
All this agony for oil and the strategic chess game of world domination.
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