| Eddie, I was being facetious - both compromise and retreat will kill his chances for re-election, which is why he'll never do either.
The UN has all the aces, like I said. They don't have to do anything - they can sit and watch America stew in the mess it made itself because it didn't listen to the UN in the first place. They can wait until America has no other choice and then decide things on their own terms. They don't have to listen to Rumsfeld or Wolfowitz because the US is the one pleading, not demanding.
As it is, the Democrats are screaming bloody murder for the first time in a long while what with Bush's new request for $87 billion more for "reparations" in Iraq, which would put our grand total to half a trillion in the hole by the end of the year. Bush's real choice is to charge forward, because any admission that he was wrong would ultimately kill his chances for a political future.
. . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. |