Let’s just hope before President Bush gets too frustrated figuring that out and resorts to using fire power over brain power, again, someone clues our seeming evermore boy-like president (who not to long ago told a reporter that the best thing that’s happened to him while at the helm of the most powerful nation in the world was to catch a big fish in his lake in Texas) into the facts of life, that by having broken Iraq — yes, poor George, there are consequences, even unintended ones you can’t fish or wish away — you’ve plainly put Iran into the catbird seat in the Middle East.
Old and sinister, but well contained Saddam Hussein, never, on his best day, could have shaken up the Middle East quite the way that it’s being shaken up and yanked around right now, with, apparently, Iran simply having given our efforts the thumbs down to its Shiite cronies.
And up the Euphrates, without a paddle much less a plan, we now find ourselves while the region goes up in smoke.
All of our precious blood and treasure that’s been spent for this result, it’s just pathetic — tragic beyond words.
Oh, spirit of George Washington, where are you?
Tim O’Leary
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