As Bush is torn apart from the battle on immigration, an issue that stands only to taint his party as the anti-Latino selfish party of scared white people that it really is, our embattled El Presidente is now facing further decline, fresh on the reports of Gallup’s new Poll placing him at 31%.
The whole issue of his new CIA director is about to meet serious resistance in the Senate from his own party. Another crushing blow to a president that is only a few points away from Jimmy Carter’s lowest point.
The war is looking so bad, conservative Bloomberg is reporting that it is less popular than Vietnam in the same stage. Duh! Vietnam made no sense but still managed to make more sense than this war. Hell LBJ and Nixon could at least stick to the script, what was the excuse they gave again? Oh yeah, a battle against tyranny and aggression, in other words Communism. Turns out the Vietnamese saw it as a civil war, and traditionally hate the Chinese. Wow, we had so little empathy for Vietnam (the country we were trying to save) that we failed to see the 1000-year hatred between China and Vietnam. It was a battle for hearts and minds as McNamara said, and we lost.
Looks like we’re in the same boat again, and once again our soldiers are doing the best they can with a war they shouldn’t be fighting. Politicians. Always the damn politicians fail to see that rampaging through someone’s country with gun’s blazing is bad PR. This war is over, and it is the most embarrasing moment in U.S. foreign policy ever!
Add all this together with the Republican Party’s relentless self-destruction, and you have one big political vaccuum. Who can say what the future holds. All avenues look cloudy.
The times they are a changin.
