President Bush to his fellow ideologues at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington:"A year after I ordered the surge of forces, high-profile terrorist attacks in Iraq are down, civilian deaths are down, sectarian killings are down. U.S. and Iraqi forces have captured or killed thousands of extremists in Iraq, including hundreds of key al Qaeda leaders and operatives."
So everyone can rest assured. Things are going exactly as well as you had imagined . We're stomping out fanatics and extremists and evil-doer's all over the world. The problem is, Mr. Bush, not everyone has as myopic a view as you do sir. There are those who would argue that our dealings internationally, most specifically in the Middle East, are going fatally wrong; that there are causes for concern in many areas. Namely, instability and internal governmental strife in nuclear-armed Pakistan. A lack of a stick or a carrot worth of policy direction in terms of relations with Iran. Iraq. There are those who would argue that the Taliban is mounting a come-back in Afghanistan and our inability to allocate dollars away from Iraq and back into a counter initiative in their desert strongholds is all backwards. The Middle East is a mess.
President Bush's message to CPAC resonates with about as much veracity as did his anemic State of the Union address of little more than a week ago. Then we were told that his three trillion dollar budget proposal would work within a framework whereby our budget would be balanced by 2012. Hilarious. President Bush barely touched on the full scope of the financial woes a majority of Americans are enduring and seemed altogether detached from reality. Not terribly hard to believe. We'll have to wait to find out just how much steeper the debt will climb and just how much further the average American will slide in the remaining eight to nine months of his lackluster presidency.
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