Only Five?
Former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski can only find five huge flaws with the President's new plan for Iraq in his editorial for the Washington Post. Read the whole thing - if you want a good cry. In a nutshell, here are the five:
1. The President grossly oversimplifies the problem we now face.
2. 21,500 troops will accomplish nothing very helpful.
3. After this plan fails, Bush has prepared us for either a cut-and-run with the same disastrous results he has been warning against, or an expansion of war into Syria and Iran. Greaaaaat - which one do *you* think he'll pick?
4. The plan offers no consideration of a political/diplomatic solution.
5. "America is acting like a colonial power in Iraq," while - according to know-it-all Brzezinski - the colonial age is over. Who knew?

Talking heads tonight are convinced that the speech was more about Iran than Iraq, and some Democrats seem to know something's up. We're doing everything we can to provoke an attack by Iran it would seem. Bush won't be ready to leave (office, or Iraq) until he's bombed out Iran's nuclear ambitions. That sounds good, doesn't it? I don't know much about nuclear technology but I think it responds pretty well to bombing. As do fundamentalist Shiite theocracies. Thanks, George for screwing up the entire world.