Cut'n'run...............sounds like a plan

"If the U.S. leaves before the job is done, the enemy could follow us here." Quoted from a speech the president gave recently.

Fuck you, Mr. President................................let them follow us.........................

They've kicked our ass to a stalemate on their turf long enough. They control most of the battlefield. They pick away at our young service members with relative impunity. They die martyrs..........deluded, but happy to do so. We die for our "cause". A far less fulfilling fate.

So...................fuck you Dubya. Bring 'em home. Let's defend the Homeland from home. Let them be the strangers in a strange land.

Ankh

What I believe

Seems this blog has become somewhat of a backwater. Doesn't mean I'm thinking about things any less, just less time to indulge myself in writing about them.
Venezuelan President Chavez is a loose cannon, a buffoon. He'll probably ultimately end up hurting his country, but he's right in his criticism of the U.S. , and specifically the Bush administration. To be fair, the Bush administration didn't create the foreign policy that's gotten us to this point geopolitically, but the administration is guilty of actively devolving U.S. foreign policy to its current blunt and hegemonistic state.
We should be about a foreign policy along the lines of the Bono/Gates/Buffet/Sauros model. Instead, we've spent the last few decades banging around the world in a bull-in-a-china-shop, petrocentric frenzy, trying to spread democracy to cultures not disposed to practice it or adopt it on our timetable.
We have, in large part, created the terrorists we're currently fighting.
On a related, and far more personally scary note, does anyone else see reinstatement of the draft on the horizon?
Ankh