Bush's big surge has been called 'Operation Run Out the Clock.' The president, reportedly obsessed with the idea that history must remember him fondly, is already stuck with being the idiot who started the Iraq war. He'll be damned if he's going to be the guy who lost that war -- never mind that it was lost on day one. A war based on so many mistakes, misconceptions, ignorance, and outright lies can't possibly turn out well.Bush's idea is to keep the fire burning until the next fire department shows up. They'll be stuck with the label 'the guys who let it burn down,' not Fire Chief Bush.
Of course, that'll work out about as well as every other plan he's ever had. Even if he manages to keep the war going until the next president is sworn in, no one's going to buy it. He'll have handed right wing pundits, columnists, and talk radio jocks a new talking point, but no one takes any of those people seriously anymore. We're pretty much done listening to fools.
Bush talks about the 'commanders in the field' and how politicians shouldn't interfere in what these commanders think is best; as if a war waged by a government is no business of that government. There are roman generals out there in Iraq, governments on horseback, with all the authority and autonomy of the emperor. And, if you don't like it, you get to shut the hell up about it. War is not the business of lawmakers or plebians.
Gen. David Petraeus is one of those (supposedly) ungoverned commanders and he's come up with a cunning plan for glorious victory in Iraq -- keep the fire burning until another fire department shows up...
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