Has anyone read this then?
I was going to keep this blog clear of politics, but sometimes you just can't walk away.
Right then, that mutton-head, George W. Bush has outlined - for the good of the Iraqi people and the free world - his exit strategy for Iraq.
But this is America. So, not only does it make interesting reading, but it also has an amusing title: National Strategy for Victory in Iraq. Seriously, you can't make this stuff up.
Personally, I'm not sure how you define victory in the shambles that is Iraq today, so it's a relief to see it comprehensively defined in the first couple of pages.
We have a problem though, it isn't really that funny. This is what a supposedly modern, mature nation believes is the way to extricate itself from a sticky situation; rather like a schoolboy who has just put a football through the gym window. It is supposed to be read with due consideration and serious reflection, not with an air of disbelief with one eye on today's date. To be honest, it scares me more than a little. It has an air of an overly simplified outlook on the world, a view that is untarnished by such inconveniences as alternative opinion. Or indeed thought.
I would go through and answer the points made in said document, but it would take some time, both for me to write and for you to read - so draw your own conclusions.
I dare say any American citizen who questions this strategy, or the reasons for its publication, will be hauled in front of the courts by the way of that other peach, the Patriot Act of 2001, but let's not get me started on that one.... (other than how do you get a 342 page bill drafted, correctly reviewed and passed by both houses in 43 days flat - agile development?)
Ooo, one last thing before I sign off (I think I can hear the big V8 rumble of a CIA wagon rounding the corner...) The website of the US Department of Justice is lifeandliberty.gov. :) Isn't that fabulous? It's like having bigtonyshouse.gov.uk as the 10 Downing Street web address.
Right, no more politics - unless I start a dedicated blog for it - but who the hell would read that!
Right then, that mutton-head, George W. Bush has outlined - for the good of the Iraqi people and the free world - his exit strategy for Iraq.
But this is America. So, not only does it make interesting reading, but it also has an amusing title: National Strategy for Victory in Iraq. Seriously, you can't make this stuff up.
Personally, I'm not sure how you define victory in the shambles that is Iraq today, so it's a relief to see it comprehensively defined in the first couple of pages.
We have a problem though, it isn't really that funny. This is what a supposedly modern, mature nation believes is the way to extricate itself from a sticky situation; rather like a schoolboy who has just put a football through the gym window. It is supposed to be read with due consideration and serious reflection, not with an air of disbelief with one eye on today's date. To be honest, it scares me more than a little. It has an air of an overly simplified outlook on the world, a view that is untarnished by such inconveniences as alternative opinion. Or indeed thought.
I would go through and answer the points made in said document, but it would take some time, both for me to write and for you to read - so draw your own conclusions.
I dare say any American citizen who questions this strategy, or the reasons for its publication, will be hauled in front of the courts by the way of that other peach, the Patriot Act of 2001, but let's not get me started on that one.... (other than how do you get a 342 page bill drafted, correctly reviewed and passed by both houses in 43 days flat - agile development?)
Ooo, one last thing before I sign off (I think I can hear the big V8 rumble of a CIA wagon rounding the corner...) The website of the US Department of Justice is lifeandliberty.gov. :) Isn't that fabulous? It's like having bigtonyshouse.gov.uk as the 10 Downing Street web address.
Right, no more politics - unless I start a dedicated blog for it - but who the hell would read that!
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