The newsflashes are coming in more quickly than poor Vernam's little fingers can link to them. David Brooks says he had a chit chat with Rumsfeld about the new vigor with which the war is being prosecuted:
"I asked Rumsfeld yesterday how decisions like the one to take back Samarra are made. Are Iraqis like Allawi really deciding when and where Americans fight?
He described a decision-making process that has no formal structure, but involves constant consultations, involving State Department types like Ambassador John Negroponte, military types like Gen. George Casey and Lt. Gen. Thomas Metz, and a raft of Iraqi officials. It also involves the big Washington honchos like Powell, Rumsfeld and Bush."
Sure sounds to me like ceding authority. Wait, I thought that was the neo-con nightmare, having U.S. troops under the command of a foreign leader. Which is it: Allawi is a sovereign leader who doesn't answer to Rummy or anyone else, or Allawi is a puppet who has no authority to direct U.S. military decisions? Bush is trying to have it both ways. Again. Now that is a nuanced position.
Good point. These are Kerry's words and I agree that they are empty semantics.
Posted by: TOF at October 5, 2004 08:05 PM>I’m loving this more than I
>can fully describe.
And that's exactly why Bush won't win: Out of touch with reality, resorting to empty semantics when lives are at stake.
Without ever realizing it, evidently, Bush took a global test. He flunked. Time for a change.
Reminder: VP debate tonight at 8:00 central. There will be a quiz.
Posted by: VC at October 5, 2004 05:14 PMFrom Websters:
“Pass” – to judge as satisfactory
“Global” – involving the whole world
“Test” - an examination of the nature or value of anything
VC’s definition of “pass a global test” does not include the words “pass,” “global”, or “test.” I’m loving this more than I can fully describe.
Posted by: TOF at October 5, 2004 03:10 PMGlobal testing next. See below for intuitively obvious definition.
Posted by: TOF at October 5, 2004 01:35 PM