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Beating up on the average
Oh how I wish I could find the source! I’ve been googling like a man posessed by the spirit of Pytheas, seaching in vain for a little thing called “documented proof.”
Ah, but I’ve only just started this entry and already I’ve digressed twice (by hyperlink). What on Earth was I looking for? I heard on the radio a few days ago that some kind of poll was taken, and it was determined that the average blog has an average of one visitor per day.
Friends, surfers, lend me your ears! I’m proud to tell you we’ve got that average beat by more than 300 percent!
Hoo wee, do I feel special!
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Removing the cover
As you may know, I’ve been surfing the “blogosphere” for different takes on the US Attorney scandal, trying to find liberal and conservative viewpoints. Yes, there are a few conservatives out there defending the AG.
It’s too bad Kyle Sampson just blew up Gonzales’ remaining credibility today.
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Lost
From the Washington Post:
“… the assumption that the United States could create a liberal, constitutional democracy in Iraq defies just about everything known by professional students of the topic. Of the more than 40 democracies created since World War II, fewer than 10 can be considered truly “constitutional” — meaning that their domestic order is protected by a broadly accepted rule of law, and has survived for at least a generation. None is a country with Arabic and Muslim political cultures. None has deep sectarian and ethnic fissures like those in Iraq.”
The Republican response to Democratic maneuvering in the House and Senate has been, “don’t just tell us the President’s wrong, give us an alternate strategy.” Increasingly, the response (if not from elected Democrats themselves, then from some in the media) has been, “pull out.” Over the last few years I’ve resisted such talk. It’s not like I have any say, but I can have an opinion (can’t I?). No matter what reason we went, or what mistakes were made in the past, we made this mess and we’ve got a unique responsibility to clean it up. That’s what I thought anyway.
Now I’m not sure the responsibility question is the right question. The question I ask myself these days is, “can we clean it up?” Does the existing evidence suggest the answer to this question is ‘no?’ What if our presence in Iraq only serves to make matters worse? If that is the case, perhaps we have a unique responsibility to pull out.