Abscence Of A Pearl Harbor Moment

[RawAlex]

Mike, you may find Bush to be "visionary", but to many, he is "delusional"... in both cases he is seeing things...

Right now, there really isn't anything concrete, solid, visible that is going to galvanize people. Pushing into Kuwait and blowing up the oil fields was that moment for the world - everyone could see the tyrant for what he is. It wasn't hard to get almost the whole word on side to attack him during Daddy's rule.

But now we are faced with a bizarre collection of coded phone calls, blurry spy sat photos, and bookkeeping exercises on chemical stocks that honestly doesn't translate well for the average person. More importantly, the common man is seeing increased fuel prices, declining economies, most of which is blames on the "uncertainty of Iraq"... more out of pocket is solid, people can understand it, and they don't like it.

Worse, Colin Powell's speech at the UN was billed as "the US shows the proof", the reason we all should go to war. Instead, it was a very technical and dry discussion with nothing for the average joe to sink his (or her) teeth into. This one speech did more than anything to turn people against the war...

As I mentioned else where, the problem now is this: Either you:

go to war without everyone else, and lose the respect and support of the rest of the world

don't go to war, look like wimps, and have to put up with saddam and bin ladin saying your a chicken.

These are two poor choices, and the only person that put the US there was Bush - he may be visionary, but he's been played - suckered into a no win situation.

Alex