The first and most critical miscalculation of W and Condi [View All]

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

Was when they did not call for an IMMEDIATE ceasefire from the first moments of this Lebanese situation.

Imagine that there is a fight in a schoolyard between Student A and Student B. Imagine that the principles and the teachers and the counselors decide that they won't break up the fight because they need to address the "deeper" causes of why the students are fighting. So, they retire to a conference room and discuss how Student A went off their Ritalin and Student B has an abusive father and that is why they are "acting out". While the teachers are wanking off in the conference room about underlying causes, the 2 students are bashing each other to bits and their various friends have now all become embroiled into a much larger brawl that threatens to spill out of the schoolyard and into the town.

Would you accept the explanations of the principle and teachers in the above scenario that it was more important to address root causes then stopping the immediate conflict? Of course not. Why would we accept this palpably idiotic reaction from the Bush administration now?

Why would anyone have any confidence whatsoever in people who can not sort out priorities when dealing with situations that have the potential to turn into major worldwide conflagrations? The Bush administration are idiots pure and simple. Just when you think it is not possible for them to lower worldwide opinion of the US any lower, they still manage to find a way to do it.

They now have NO credibility because they made no sincere attempt to stop the fighting in the first place. The moment they decided that a certain number of dead Lebanese were acceptable to them, they lost their ability to broker any type of peacemaking deal.