How NOT to solve a pest problem.
I guess anyone stopping by has read or otherwise heard about the Qana atrocity this weekend, which, sad to say, is neither the first, nor will it be the last in an ongoing series of actions that, to understate, are ugly on a truly epic scale (and geez--this isn't even the first time a civilian massacre has happened in Qana itself. Robert Fisk reminds us that Qana suffered a similar fate in 1996. Fisk also reminds us that Qana claims to be the site of Jesus's first miracle--I hope those so-called "Christians" who wholeheartedly endorse the Israeli actions can take pride in this spitting upon their savior).
And I see we've got a kinda, sorta cease-fire that isn't...as well as Shrubleroy's usual public embarrassment (that would be even MORE embarrassing if he wasn't so thoroughly cocooned).
This administration has an astonishingly consistent record of managing to make things WORSE in every instance they've applied their "reverse Midas" touch. And yet they expect to be rewarded for this singularly awful "achievement."
No one will say that things were "good" in the Middle East at the point of what Keystone Kondi calls "the status quo ante" and what Shrub calls "before 9/11." Nor can you say that everything in New Orleans was wine and roses prior to 8/29. But you'd have to be delusional--or on a river in Egypt to compare "the status quo ante" with "status quo" and NOT see a marked deterioration. And to paraphrase the 9th Amendment, I'm not implying that it's MERELY Iraq and New Orleans--or the Gulf Coast--where we find textbook examples of Shrub-fuckery. Just to cite a couple more, how about the "MBA pResident's" ridiculous drug "plan,"...or his total inaction in dealing with the environment? Friday, I described this as Team Bush's "leaden" touch. That might be on the generous side. Billmon's "reverse Midas" touch--everything they get their hands on turns to shit--might well be more accurate.
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