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I was on Keith Olbermann last night discussing Joe Lieberman and his shared delusions with John McCain. They've become brothers in bloodshed. They can validate their misguided beliefs by pointing at the other and saying: "See, I'm not crazy." They're the D.C. version of Thelma and Louise, only it's not their car they're driving over a cliff -- it's our country.
-- Arianna Huffington
Monk has a hard time resisting snappy, provocative rhetoric like this. The sentiment expressed is also common these days, regarding Dubya's surge. Although I am now inclined to think that they are right about our prospects in Iraq, I do not really care for this sort of expression. The tone is so shrill that it can begin to sound as though they are cheering for failure and tragedy.
Dubya is our elected president. It is his call. So long as we are committed, we have to hope that the military and the Administration can pull it off. If they somehow turn Iraq around in the next two years, then Dubya miraculously saves his legacy, and our Middle East situation is on a much needed healthy footing. If they indeed fail, and we only continue to pile on casualties without any improvement in Iraq and the region, then the critics were right. They are still going to fight it out for a while, and we are left to be supportive of those ends.
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I was on Keith Olbermann last night discussing Joe Lieberman and his shared delusions with John McCain. They've become brothers in bloodshed. They can validate their misguided beliefs by pointing at the other and saying: "See, I'm not crazy." They're the D.C. version of Thelma and Louise, only it's not their car they're driving over a cliff -- it's our country.
-- Arianna Huffington
Monk has a hard time resisting snappy, provocative rhetoric like this. The sentiment expressed is also common these days, regarding Dubya's surge. Although I am now inclined to think that they are right about our prospects in Iraq, I do not really care for this sort of expression. The tone is so shrill that it can begin to sound as though they are cheering for failure and tragedy.
Dubya is our elected president. It is his call. So long as we are committed, we have to hope that the military and the Administration can pull it off. If they somehow turn Iraq around in the next two years, then Dubya miraculously saves his legacy, and our Middle East situation is on a much needed healthy footing. If they indeed fail, and we only continue to pile on casualties without any improvement in Iraq and the region, then the critics were right. They are still going to fight it out for a while, and we are left to be supportive of those ends.
