No Sense Abroad?

So Condi is playing peace maker. Isn't that lovely. Going back again to the middle east, bravely persevering on her mission of salvation for the Israelies and Palestinians. Moving the ball forward on peace and reconciliation and trying to find their way along the road-map. Will someone please revoke this woman's passport? The BushCo Titanic is sinking fast. Not from the hoped-for Democratic iceberg, (see this weeks craven House vote - shame on you Nancy Pelosi! You've stripped away the Congressional oversight touchdown of any Iran bombing for the sake of a cheap political field goal) but from the weight of their own criminality and incompetence and Condi needs to protect her legacy. So what's a put-upon SecState to do when the admin hawks are circling, the opposition wolves are baying, the subpoenas flying, the clock is ticking and the historians are scribbling? Why go to the middle east of course! Makes perfect sense! Run out the clock in Bethlehem instead of Baghdad where at least they can etch on your epitaph - "Condi - at least she tried." What a farce. As if any body with any sense or understanding is listening to this tired old school teacher now. Her understanding of the subtleties of the middle east is about as deep as yours dear reader and not nearly as wide.

We knew this would be the case when she succeeded Uncle Tom Powell. BushCo was never looking for a serious State Department. As is their view on all Federal Agencies - and shown to its full extent now with the Justice Department Scandal- BushCo was all about destroying the government from within by appointing the most incompetent, partisan hacks to essentially run them into the ground so they could then prove how bad the government is and outsource everything to their corporate buddies. National Security, Emergency Management, the Military, Energy, Health Care, Justice and Incarceration, all the functions that BushCo says are key for fighting the terrorists and preserving our liberties he's sold to the highest bidder so that we are effectively unprotected and unguarded if his buddies can't make a profit on it. Hence why the stock market is at record highs and New Orleans is still not rebuilt. Hence why US health care costs the most in the Western world, delivers the least but HMOs and Pharma show record profits. Hence why we keep demanding that Iraqis take control of their own destiny and work with the Americans and why the American outsourcing companies that are actually running things keep throwing them to the wolves and bringing in Jordanians. And now Condi wants to make peace in Palestine.

That train has left the station and she still doesn't know it. Instead of sitting down with all the power-brokers in the region including Iran, including Syria and forcing the corrupt Israeli government to do the same, she scolds Egypt for not delivering Democracy fast enough. If Iraq is any indication of what US-spread democracy is about can you blame them? Once again administration naivete is in full force and can only unleash tragedy. Instead of working with the Saudis and Jordanians to help drive acceptance of King Abdullah's plan - peace and full recognition for Israel in exchange for a pull back to the 1967 borders, she coddles Olmert in Jerusalem and encourages his intransegence. Using her best school-marm persona she flies back and forth scolding these leaders on what they should be doing with no understanding of the context in which they live. Fortunately though her time has passed. No one in the world arena takes her seriously any more. She has blown whatever credibility she had during the Lebanon War this summer. She's just another BushCo hack with her own airplane. Paradoxically, we're now experiencing the greatest tension with Russia - her speciality I'm told - due to BushCo's talent for turning allies into enemies. Maybe we could just ship her to Siberia. Now there's a trip the American taxpayer might find worth paying...