My question to all this: Why the hell does the administration not employ a qualified advisor on Arab, Islamic, and Iranian culture? All you have to do is look at the past 20 years to see exactly how the current Iranian (president and clerics) leadership will respond to strong arm tactics. And the Iranian people aren't going to be too appreciative of it either given that they have a front row seat to Iraq.
Insane. I keep looking at the calendar and praying that today is April 1. No such luck. Instead it's just another day in the current administration that we have to survive for another three years...unless legal occurences actually manage to take down the whole one-brained administration and prevent a Delay-ite from assuming power.
The answer to your so intelligent question is that this administration is just so sure that they have a "CALLING FROM ON HIGH" and are right. Even if they don't have the fact, it doesn't matter. They have the faith and belief. Let's not muddy that with inconvenient sociology, anthropology, Islamic scholarship, and such.
Oh, I have to have faith that our legal system and sense of balance will win out and Libby, Cheney, and his ilk will get what is coming to them for there hubris. I can only hope.
I share your frustration. I am married to a died in the wool Republican who can't understand my frustration and blames on the "liberal press" that I read. I think that this country is terribly divided with no one willing to pull us back together to the middle where intelligence rules. So I'll wait for three years and hope nothing else like Iraq happens in the mean time.
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Date: 2006-04-09 11:05 am (UTC)Insane. I keep looking at the calendar and praying that today is April 1. No such luck. Instead it's just another day in the current administration that we have to survive for another three years...unless legal occurences actually manage to take down the whole one-brained administration and prevent a Delay-ite from assuming power.
The answer to your so intelligent question is that this administration is just so sure that they have a "CALLING FROM ON HIGH" and are right. Even if they don't have the fact, it doesn't matter. They have the faith and belief. Let's not muddy that with inconvenient sociology, anthropology, Islamic scholarship, and such.
Oh, I have to have faith that our legal system and sense of balance will win out and Libby, Cheney, and his ilk will get what is coming to them for there hubris. I can only hope.
I share your frustration. I am married to a died in the wool Republican who can't understand my frustration and blames on the "liberal press" that I read. I think that this country is terribly divided with no one willing to pull us back together to the middle where intelligence rules. So I'll wait for three years and hope nothing else like Iraq happens in the mean time.