Ritual versus reality day on the Hill, with wingnuttia no doubt taking the role of the Furies...geez. Talk about mass delusion and self-deception, all in service of what's gotta be the ultimate in petulance--a refusal to recognize that, as Atrios and others used to note, there's no way to unshit the bed.
Instead, we're treated to yet another round of, as Juan Cole puts it, "the combination of unrealistic optimism and foolish gullibility that marks political discourse on the Right in Washington." Bag News Notes also nails this sort of bizarro world in a short paragraph today, commenting on a Pravda-Upon-Hudson paean to General Petraeus:
Having enabled the ethnic cleansing of a country; pacified warring Sunni tribes through flat-out bribery (with no resulting structural change and no end in sight); and then having claimed credit for a (only fractionally successful) so-called surge leveraged on the back of al-Sadr's cease-fire, here was the NYT yesterday effectively promoting the General as a potential vice-presidential or even presidential candidate! (And not only that, but the article actually cites "loathsome buzz" from liberal bloggers as escalating the wave!)
Geez: the most pressing foreign policy issue, and the debate is strictly at juvenile level. No one wants to admit the obvious--that as bad as Iraq was under Saddam Hussein, well, it's even worse now, both for the Iraqis AND everyone else.
And we've got only ourselves to blame.
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