March 14, 2003

Single"mind"edness

A very interesting piece on what's going on in Bush's head. Basically, those who support him are very happy with his focus and determination on - well, whatever his raison du jour (ooh! French! Break out the sedition acts!) for attacking Iraq is. Others, like yours truly, are now convinced that his only goal in the White House, if not in life, is beating Saddam Hussein.

Especially on the heels of the news that he's spent four days holed up in the Oval Office trying to convince countries - any countries - to support him. When you're the leader of the mightiest nation on earth and you're sucking up to Bulgaria to get your back, maybe just maybe it's time to reexamine your agenda. A few months ago, I'd have said that any week which featured Bush sequestered is a good week, but now I'm not so sure.

Anyway, those of us who have paid any attention to anything except Iraq have noticed that things here in the US are not so great. The job market is collapsing, the stock market's lurching around like a stab victim, and the general mood of the populace is...oh, what the hell, I'll steal from Dennis Miller...bleaker than Ingmar Bergman sitting in the dark listening to Leonard Cohen records. And our fearless leader is up all night, on the phone, asking Angola to ask Slovakia if they think maybe Peru likes us (I mean really likes us.)

Bush was elected* to lead this country. If he'd rather form an elite unit of supercommandos and lead them into Baghdad himself, and leave the homefront in the hands of someone who gives a rat's ass, I'd be all for it. If the war comes, is won quickly, and Bush wants to spend the rest of his days traveling around the countryside with Hussein's head in a bottle, OK. But in the meantime, act like a President. Just for once. OK?

* Well, for the purposes of this post, we'll pretend he was elected.

Comments

I trust you a relatively young so you will have time to become better informed and educated. If you are a mature adult, I fear you are perpetually a moron.
peterNaCl

Posted by: peterNaCl at March 18, 2003 09:19 PM

If by "better informed and educated" you mean I will be able to sort through the countless trial balloons sent up as possible vindications for war, to find out there's more there than George's personal vendetta against Hussein, I'd sure like to see it. If by "perpetual moron" you mean someone who doesn't support the war, well, I'll happily side with the majority of the world on this one. But you'll have to do better than that to change my mind.

Posted by: Michael at March 18, 2003 10:30 PM

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