The Bush Administration and Administrative Meltdown
Andaluciae
12-04-2007, 21:42
Here's a link condensed because NYT links are so incredibly long and I didn't want to stretch the page. (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/washington/12emails.html?ex=1334030400&en=0d043b00fcbecca5&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss)
From my point of view, this failure of administrative discipline is merely a symptom of greater problems within the current administration. I would argue that piece by piece, the Bush presidency has crumbled into pieces, since late 2004. What roles did the various potential causal factors play in this decay, and how do you think it will impact the next President?
Cannot think of a name
12-04-2007, 22:05
The next administration is going to have an uphill battle to tow. There is a no win situation in Iraq that goes on top of the already no win situation in Iraq.
They're going to have to pull the troops out, we don't have the will to fight this war (and I would argue that we shouldn't have, but thats another issue). If we pull out and chaos insues (like it isn't insuing now...again, side issue...I keep distracting myself) it validates the Bush Administration, if we pull out and peace reigns and daisies grow in the desert, it will validate the Bush Administration. While I would prefer the daisies and would just go ahead and eat the gloating by his cronies, that isn't likely to happen. What will result will be something both unpleasent and hopefull in differing measures, and the new guy will have to hold that bag and there isn't much of a way to look good doing it but oddly enough there is a way to look good being the guy who shit in the bag. I don't like that prospect, but there it is.
Further, any corruption will be seen as symptomatic even if it is vetted by the new administration itself because it has been so systematic so far.
On top of all that, the aisle has never been wider and reaching has never been so charged to the point that any 'reaching across the aisle' has become a thinly, very thinly, vieled guise to slap the other person and there is no reason to believe they won't.
It's going to be no fun following W out the door.
The Brevious
13-04-2007, 21:55
A lot of people have brought up *a* point about the type of force used against the populace there ... how it's ground war (obviously for occupation) instead of any more air strikes (for superiority and destruction) ...
and more folks, though not as often, have said something about using precision nukes, with the argument that it worked with the Japanese.
I suspect that kind of thinking, although it's not that probable at this point, could vault this problem into a new phase.
:eek:
The only way bombs could help Iraq now is via genocide. The war was too ineptly executed and the occupation mismanaged from the word Go for it to be salvageable.