Political – Mutha’s Idea

I’ve considered Mutha’s idea, presented to my by Boxer in a complete enough form. It is vague, but it also has some good ideas connected to it. It details something we’ll ultimately have to do. Step back and let the Iraqis run without any direct US military support. That’s the only real way to see if they can handle their own business.

Considering that various numbers have placed the number of Iraqi troops at more than the number of troops we have, I think it might be a good time for this. If the Pentagon isn’t fluffing the numbers on this, I’d think they have enough to do it by now.

Of course, this consideration was never looked at, as Republicans were content to simply make a strawman bit of legislation to make fun of Murtha’s idea, rather than respond to it intellectually.

This, my friends, is the sad business as usual in Washington DC.

This is one of the reasons we will be in Iraq for years. The same old political bullshit. THe same thing that helped to give Clinton a reason to be crippled(furor over relatively piddling scandals) and continue to hold us back as a species.

We will, then, consider to bull ahead without considering new ways to do things, with vague notions of what to do as our people continue to die. Sad that the ones in charge aren’t sure just where we’re going, for the more lost we get, the longer this will take and the more who will die.

It’s time for a change. We need some true intellectuals, some true leaders in our government. Not spin doctors and politicians only concerned with their narrow visions and the next election.

Where are the real leaders?