And now: Syria

[Occhidiangela]

... between the military plans and the politico-wet-dream plans.  It's their job, after all.  But these plans were not the military's. This is a political plan for Cold War Style dominance over the middle east hatched by hawkish politicos.

That might be their job too, but I'd prefer they remain unemployed. Or at least lurking in the shadows, rather than calling the shots in the global arena.

Is that anything like the wet dreams of folks trying to repeal the Second Ammendment here? Like the wet dream of re-creating America as a welfare state? Like the wet dream of some Mexicans for repealing the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? Like the wet dream of Lech Walensa in freeing Poland? Like the wet dream of using US Peacekeepers, then throwing them away to the mercies of the ICC when someone has a political axe to grind? Like the wet dream of unifying the Korean Peninsula and ending 50 years of ceasefire without Armistice? Like the wet dream of Ronald Reagan for reducing the tax burden? Like the wet dream of universal health care in the US? Like the wet dream of the Civil Rights Activists in our country in the 1950's that got the Civil Rights act passed under Pres Eisenhower, and eventually built the momentum to create a different legal climate in subsequent Civil Rights work?

Jesus, Jester, this 'wet dreaming' is all part of the political process. It is not just the left wing who come up with ideas: everyone does. And everyone tries to get their ideas to be put into force, with varying degrees of success.

More to the point, the continual urging of many in the Center and Right, to President Clinton's deaf ears, to do something about Iraq and UN Sanctions, was hardly the sole idea of Wolfowitz and friends. That was an open criticism of the Clinton administration for years, in a variety of fora. Not all of them agreed with Monsieur Wolfowitz.