ISG

I'm thinking we have two wars going on now, one is against Islam, one is against Bush. This isn't a new thought but it's becoming more easily visible.

The Democrats won the latest battle against Bush, they took over both houses. There's no further battle immediately to be fought.

There is Iraq, and we have the Iraq Study Group. The Iraq Study Group has produced words...

But back to the war on Islam. There are hot spots and cold spots. Hot spots we call Iraq. It has nothing to do with Islam. Cold spots --everywhere else-- we call "people just like us", people who just want a better life for their children, "Moderate Muslims". They of course have nothing to do with terrorism, or with Iraq.

But then... they are Muslim... they are in fact very scary.

There you have it. Two wars.

The war against Bush is a war for power. Democrat power. That's it. There are no values, only power. Any argument will do, any argument if it works. It works if it gets votes. But there are no votes immediately at issue, so manipulative arguments needn't be made.

But there is that other war... and all those scary people. For this war, there is no argument, no argument will work, because there is no ballot box, there is no vote that is going to establish a victor. Instead, you have bombs... and so many scary people. Everybody knows that, everybody feels that; nobody says what they both know and feel; so in that case, what do you say?

The Iraq Study Group: "We have here 500 firm, insightful, bipartisan recommendations that if fully implemented will assure world peace forever" And then they say, sotto voce "Let Bush do it".

And Bush will do it. He has about a year. After that the war for 2008 will become more important than the war that might destroy America.