Kevin Drum with a painful observation that made me laugh out loud:
Ambassador Crocker again refuses to engage in hypotheticals with Senator Biden. Unless we hypothetically talk about leaving Iraq, in which case he is absolutely sure that everything would fall apart and the world would end.
Le sigh.
jake
I hope the next President leaves his ass there after the troops GtFo:
Shorter Crock: Waging unnecessary war is hard!
cleek
wait, the administration’s reasons for continuing the war are as hollow and self-serving as their reasons for starting the war ? that seems impossible.
Crusty Dem
cleek, I think you mean unpossible. What? It’s a perfectly cromulent word.
Redhand
What a shill! Crock-of can do no better than his idiot C-in-C: “It’s hard work.”
TenguPhule
I hope the GI on the helicopter out remembers to kick Crocker off as they leave.
Delia
Yeah, it’s hard and complicated all right. The hard and complicated truth is that the Iraqis are perfectly capable of fighting bravely and intelligently. They just don’t want to do it for an American puppet regime. The recent battle in Basra illustrated that hard and complicated fact rather well. The hard and complicated fact is that this administration still wants to have things its own way in the Middle East no matter how much reality exists in getting in the way. None of them have apparently ever paid any attention to the noted social philosopher, Mick Jagger, who taught us all long ago that you can’t always get what you want.
Tax Analyst
That creates a priceless picture image.
would that it t’were.
Rick Taylor
That sums it all up; you can skip the rest of the hearings. They gave no scenario for success, no description of what our long term goals were and how we were going to fulfill them, except to stay in Iraq until things get better, with the ever-present knowledge that leaving would be a disaster. It wasn’t actually Kevin’s observation, he was quoting Democracy Arsenal.
Rick Taylor
The whole summary from day 1 is worth reading.
Rick Taylor
Intel Dump is one of your links, so you’ve probably already this, but Philip has a good commentary on the hearings, and the whole thing is worth reading.