Diplomacy's Boring, Can We Blow Stuff Up Yet?

Ohhh Matt is all excited, his favorite boogeyman may be coming for a visit-



Color me skeptical that a) he will come, and b) that Bush will show if he does.

Meanwhile, the usual neocon media cheerleaders declare it is inevitable that President Bush will direct military strikes against Iran, for not doing so would mean that his presidency is a failure, you see. Podhoretz says this not with a sense of foreboding, or even resolve, but with a child-like giddiness one normally associates with a toddler smashing up his favorite new toy.

A new polls finds Americans and the French cautious, but not outright opposed to that.

However, a closer inspection seems to indicate that President Bush fears a congressional vote on the war because he knows it is not a political battle he may win. Despite what the aforementioned poll indicates, I am sure the vast majority of Americans aren't ready to let this administration start another war. Due to their immense incompetence, American foreign policy may be in limbo until 2009. Still, the road-to-war rhetoric will continue no matter what, because it adds to the fog of fear they have been creating. But where this is all going remains to be seen. Nothing good can come from this, I am sure.