Bad News Pouring Into Washington
10/23/2007
Paul Munnis
China and Japan have put orbiting satellites into space. For China, they now have the Atomic Bomb and they have ICBM’s to deliver them with. China has also shown it can intercept other missiles en-route and take them out. The U.S. would like to be able to do that but can’t do it on a repeatable basis.
We don’t hear Dick Chaney saying China needs to be bombed and taken out as a threat to the U.S. yet they are a much bigger threat than Iran is. Iran doesn’t yet have the bomb and it has no ICBM’s.
The GOP news outlets are pretty mum on this subject preferring instead to talk about a convenient reoccurrence of messages from Bin Laden. He seems to show up just when Bush needs to divert attention from problems his Administration is having. It seems as if he has a Washington PO Box assigned to him.
Meanwhile our own NASA is struggling to launch a defective space shuttle with cracked wings and is praying it won’t fall apart in flight. In a sense the NASA effort is symbolic of the Bush government and the GOP Party. They are cracked and falling apart too.
There is a huge siphoning off of money needed to run the country and its headed straight into Iraq to pay for groups like Blackwater who today were charged with tax fraud by the IRS and Congress.
The political diversion needed by the Bush Administration is away from the failed diplomatic effort with Turkey who is getting ready to get revenge for the attack and the killing of its troops by Kurds. Condie Rice should have been all over this and she muffed it. Prevention is always better than cleaning up the mess.
Like any neighbor, Turkey wants its borders respected. Like any neighbor it expects its neighbors to keep their children out of their yard. Iraq isn’t doing that and Turkey is getting ready to enforce their own borders and maybe to cross into Iraq in hot pursuit of trespassers. We do not see this as evil on Turkey’s part. They have some rights too.
What Bush needs to do is get some troops up there patrolling the border and coordinating the efforts with Turkey to intercept, arrest, and detain those who illegally cross the shared border. Neighbors do that – they cooperate with one another. If Bush can’t do that he should not be occupying Iraq.
It’s hard to believe we can’t get some troops up on the Turkish border to do the patrolling job and harder still to think that the 140,000 man Iraq Army can’t use this as an opportunity to get some field training. Is this a commentary on the quality of the Iraqi Army once again? We are afraid it is so.