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The first time I remember reading of a strategy similar to the donkeys’ “strategy” in Iraq was when I read “The Red Badge of Courage.”

…they’re scrambling.

LOL. First, let’s assume that the surge is working, but about which I could spend 1,000 words refuting. One of the major issues Democrats have put forward in this argument is to what end is this effort? The primary reason given was always to give the Maliki government “breathing room to form a government from all three segments of Iraqi culture (religion).”

Well, what with al-Maliki flipping us the figurative bird, saying they “can find friends elsewhere,” it was pretty good that the presnit backed down from his “not pleased” rhetoric, even if it did tip his hand. But isn’t al-Maliki’s slap in the face just adding fuel to the fire after the Iraqi parliment took the month off, while our soldiers bought the security in Baghdad and Anbar province with American blood?

Yeah, the surge is working. To what end? We can’t sustain this level of troops past next April, and then what? Does anyone think that al-Maliki is going to pull a government together? After visiting Iraq last week, Senators Levin and Warner suggested al-Maliki be replaced, so I guess that’s not exactly a sterling vote of confidence. And now that Bush is backed into the corner — he can’t replace al-Maliki — how many more young Americans are going to die before we reach January 20, 2009?

Blaming the Democrats, a CalCon fave, doesn’t work here, though. The Democrats have proposed several viable alternative plans, from phased withdrawal to pulling troops out to the periphery and allow the Iraqis to battle it out amongst themselves, none of which the stubborn presnit will even consider. We are stuck policing the Iraqi civil war, and worse, sabre-rattling at Iran and Syria. The problem Bush is faced with there is that Iran has a huge army, with foot soldiers who willing to fight with nothing more than a Koran for a weapon. And Syria’s Assad will doubtless cast his lot with Ahmadinejad. Then we’re hemmed in.

But Reid and Pelosi as puppets of the netroots? Hardly. I guess if the republicans listen to the blogosphere, its a movement (We-The-People?), but when Democrats listen to their constituents, largely online, and who along with enough sane republicans, total 70+ percent of the country, its… representative government?

I think that idea scares conservatives. Hence, another “Swift Boat” group out to discredit anyone who dares talk the reality on the ground in Iraq. At least now we know where Rove is going.

This may be unfair, but: viable for who? The U.S.A. isn’t the only player in the war on terror.

I’m not sure that this is unrelated: a recent Gallup poll shows that Congress has an 18% approval rating.

Offhand, I’d say that there’s something wrong in Washington, D.C., and that Americans are catching on.

I hope that the Republican party, regaining a majority, does better than the current bosses.

Can you say cut and run? Or redeploy? Or cut funding?