I would call this Sunday Friviality but somehow that sounds lame.
WARNING: Afghanistan is discussed at times.
Meanwhile, Panel Time! Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize, for albatrosses! Liz Cheney says that it's premature, but that maybe he can send the mother of a fallen American soldier to Oslo to participate in what she calls a "farce." She is concerned somehow, that Obama does not believe in "American dominance," whatever the hell that is. Juan Williams offers that it is a repudiation of Bush-Cheney foreign policy of pointless bellicosity which then leads to failed military strategies. Bill Kristol calls it an "anti-American" award, that should have been refused, but that the second-best thing to do is to go to Oslo and give a "pro-American" speech on American exceptionalism. Exceptional fast-food and exceptional dance moves. And Nina Easton thinks it will hurt him, political, because pundits say it will hurt him, like Nina Easton, who just did so.
...While we're FLOWING, maybe someone on this panel would be so good as to FLOW ME UP an explanation of how the 40,000 additional troops will be used. Because right now, it seems like an article of faith that this magic number of troops will somehow win positive-sum outcomes through...I don't know....SHIT THEY LEARNED AT HOGWARTS? See. This is where you'd prefer a general to say, "Hey, we just had an election go south, we're having trouble outcompeting the Taliban on governance, we probably need additional resources, but what we really need is a new approach with a significant magnitude of change." OH WAIT. WE ACTUALLY DO HAVE A GENERAL SAYING THAT.
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