Thursday, March 16, 2006
I think they should have called it "Operation Restore Poll Numbers" -- I've never been a big proponent of wag-the-dog explanations of foreign policy decisions but come on...
Anyway, so a couple days ago Bush made what amounts to a mumbled promise to draw down the American presence in Iraq by the end of 2006 while Knight Ridder reports that U.S. military airstrikes have been steadily increasing for the past five months and today we get the biggest air assault since 2003. Umm ... Didn't someone sort of predict all of this?
Anyway, so a couple days ago Bush made what amounts to a mumbled promise to draw down the American presence in Iraq by the end of 2006 while Knight Ridder reports that U.S. military airstrikes have been steadily increasing for the past five months and today we get the biggest air assault since 2003. Umm ... Didn't someone sort of predict all of this?
