Yesterday it seemed clear to me that the democratic calculus regarding the betrayal of their mandate to end the war in Iraq was a clarion call to ridicule.
Americans across the nation have been obliging this call, and none louder or better than MSNBC's Keith Olbermann:
You call that leadership?
What are Americans to think of our state of affairs when those we worked hard for and had such hope for betrayed that work and that vision in less than one year and after a single test of their will?
What are our troops to think of our state of affairs when they give and give and give and Washingtonians vacillate and vacillate and vacillate in the face of back door drafts, secondary surges, and rapidly expanding chaos in Iraq?
When lives and blood are on the line it is doubly immoral to knowingly pursue what is clearly the wrong course. This applies to republican and democratic legislators alike. Each delay of one day means 3 more American GIs killed (on average), and an uncounted number of Iraqis killed.
I, like Keith, cannot imagine these elected representatives will be warmly received in their home districts over Memorial Day weekend. I hope San Francisco in particular spares no tar or feathers for Ms. Pelosi.
No comments:
Post a Comment