What the Heck was I Thinking!?

First there was the picture - less than a day after that putz, Kerry, trash talked about our military - a perfect skewering of that slime eel.
Now, Blackfive has the perfect name for what the Republican Senatorial leadership was doing:
BLACKFIVE: A Big Bowl of Dumbass
I love it!

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but John McCain is no Hilary Clinton when it comes to shifting position toward the voter base. Flopping Aces has a post asking the core question regarding McCain:

Now we have McCain from the supposed Republican side giving a speech
in which he states that we need to return to conservatism. Even more
surprising since I would like to know the time and place that this man
EVER really embraced being a conservative?

A fair question, indeed.
Flopping Aces also quotes from Hugh Hewitt’s book in which Hewitt lays the blame for much of the failure of the last Republican-controlled Congress on McCain’s Gang of 14.
Personally, I think McCain is the poster child for this past election debacle for the Republicans. Feckless, disloyal to the broader goals, self-serving. The man has a range of “talent and skills.”
He’s not for me as President, in 2008 or ever!

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That’s what the DoD and the armed forces should say to San Francisco’s school board and the community. It won’t happen, but they deserve to figure out their own future since they think the military isn’t part of theirs.

SAN FRANCISCO / School board votes to dump JROTC program “We don’t want the military ruining our civilian institutions,” said Sandra Schwartz of the American Friends Service Committee, an organization actively opposing JROTC nationwide. “In a healthy democracy … you contain the military. You must contain the military.”

One of the other quotes got me to thinking of an answer:

“I think people should not despair too much,” Sanchez said. “I think now
the work begins — to work within the community to develop new programs that
will fulfill the needs of our students.”

My answer - How about Young Pioneers? They aren’t doing much right now, since their government collapsed of its own contradictions.

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Captain Ed Morrisey of Captain’s Quarters blogs about a Guardian article claiming to describe the new direction for Iraq.

“lower the goals, forget about the democracy crap, put more resources in, do it.”

Captain Ed. goes over this point by point to argue that it isn’t beneficial to the overall US strategy.
I question whether this isn’t simply a liberal strawman.
“Lower the goals” seems to fly directly in the face of all the President Bush has been saying and doing over the past 2 plus years.
“Forget about the democracy crap” likewise goes right against the stated goals of the White House. Not only that, but it requires that President Bush abandon the core strategic purpose of the war.
The last two aren’t policy goals, they are steps to achieve the first two.
I think this is the first strawman Democrat/liberal proposal on what different to do in Iraq. All it aims to do is to get the US out, not worry about the aftermath, and claim this was the decisive, aggressive solution to the “quagmire.”
It is the same approach taken in getting out of Vietnam decades ago. Forget about the future, let’s look like we achieved something decisive and scuttle home quickly. Everyone, including the Muslim jihadists, will see this as a victory for them and a defeat for the US.

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