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| 48 hours |
| 2003-03-17 |
| President Bush has given Sammy 48 hours to get out of Dodge. Sammy's already said, "No, no, a thousand times no!" Actually, I guess he's just said "no" a thousand times, but it amounts to the same thing. At some point within the next 48 hours and 15 minutes the balloon will be up and it'll be clobbering time. There are already reports that Ali Hassan al-Majid's forces are being issued chem weapons. If they use them, the response is going to be something they don't want to see and something that the lefties will be harping on for the next 50 years. If they don't use them, we're going to roll over them. The results will be the same in the end, only with fewer casualties on their side and possibly ours. Blixie is continuing to pretend events can be turned around and the Frenchies and Fritzies are calling for more talks on Wednesday. The UN is dead, unless Bush and Co. want to keep the husk around, and its corpse will soon start to stink. NATO is dead. The EU is probably dead. Should we become all wimpy and multilateralist, all that can be reversed. I'm hoping we dont' — the UN has been shown to be nothing but a gabfest, NATO an empty shell, and we'll be better off without them. What's going to happen next? I'll be expecting the first demand for a cease-fire sometime Thursday morning, assuming the festivities begin Wednesday night. The Sammy lovers will take to the streets, the Arab street will make faces. Neither will amount to anything in the end. I don't think Sammy's own Bad Guys will be able to bring anything off within the U.S. or even overseas, but I expect his sympathizers — Hamas and/or Hezbollah, possibly al-Qaeda — will manage something. My guess would be Hezbollah, probably acting behind a deniable front. If it is, that will make Iran and Syria the next targets. It's going to be an interesting couple weeks. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 About the UN -- has any administration source actually mentioned UN participation in the postwar regime, or is that just the chatter of (many) invidious talking heads? |
| Posted by: someone 2003-03-17 22:37:12 |