The same old story, as Bush, snr, on the road to Desert Storm; US rejection of every peace overture put on the table; so George emulating his father, in many ways, but crucially lacking any of the foresight that his father had.
While reading your others it occurred to me a manual for Republican presidential nominee, could include ..
Desired qualities: ignorance of accurate and important facts of foreign affairs.
Education requirements: absolute internalization of and total allegiance to neo-con propaganda myths.
Eyesight: blind to reality, but correctable to queue card reading where applicable, good enough
Smell: smell a rat in every Spanish psychologist interviewer, as they could not possibly be anything like they say they are; since they are the enemy, they lie about everything.
Hearing: deaf to the desires and hopes of the common American people.
Commitment: to alienate as many foreigners as possible.
Also, it occurred to me, were coffee and cigarettes available to the Guantanamo prisoners of, oops!, excuse me, to enemy combatants, as were available to McCain, as a POW, in Viet Nam.
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