Argument preview?
I have a hunch that the arguments for staying in Iraq are going to be the same no matter what happens in the next six months. If violence abates: “We can’t leave now, things are going well.” If violence spikes, “We can’t leave now, the country will fall apart.”
The situation in my eyes is that staying there screws us in one way, and leaving screws us in a different way. We need to decide which crappy option is less crappy than the other. As simplistic and crude as that is, it’s probably more intelligent than the cries of “We can’t let the terrorists win” and “The Surrendercrats want to give bin Laden a handjob” that are already being aired.
Okay, maybe I shouldn’t have put the last one in quotes. But it wouldn’t surprise me to hear it later on. The rhetoric is already being ratched up, nine months before the election. Like Rep. Steven King’s comments that terrorists would be dancing in the street if Barack Obama won the Presidency. Applications to “So You Think You Can Dance?” will shoot up 280%. There will be a line of middle-Eastern men waiting to audition outside FOX studios.
“Name.”
“Osama bin. My friends call me ‘O’.”
“Dance training?”
“Mostly jazz. A little bit of tap. But hey, who doesn’t know a little bit of tap? Ha ha ha!”
On a final note, isn’t “Surrendercrats” a great name for a Saturday morning cartoon?”Surrendercrats, HOOOOO!” Every time they meet a bad guy, they dive under a table. “Is he gone?” “I don’t know. Check.” “No, you check.”
