Thinking Things Through
July 14th, 2006As you surely know, Israel is invading Lebanon and blasting away at it without mercy. President Bush, I said yesterday, should speak to Israel and attempt to solve this, and end it: hearing my call for action, Bush decided to take the opposite of the one I advocate and promise not to push for a truce. The White House’s strategy is to allow Israel to attempt for dominance over the Lebanese, and the hope is that that will intimidate Iran and other Middle Eastern countries. I, for one, think that idea fatally flawed, so it fits to be coming from this President. The Guardian, too, puts this conflict on Bush’s shoulders because of his indifference to the actions of Israel.
Personally, I’m sad to see that he’s willing to allow this to go on because, on paper, he “doesn’t want to make military decisions for Israel” but, in reality because he wants to send a message to the Muslim world, the wrong message at that! Bush is playing an absurd game of brinksmanship with the Islamic Republics of the World, and if Iran enters this War, or Israel strikes Syria, there is going to be hell to pay.
Valerie Plame is in the news again, this time for filing a lawsuit against Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and Scooter Libby, alleging that they ruined her career. We’ll see how it goes, but it should be interesting to see what is revealed to the public and what happens to these men who failed and fail to think things through.