Inch By Inch (Millimeter By F-ing Millimeter)
Jim Hoagland writes to Saddam:
This is the week you sealed your fate. Your 12,000-page whitewash on weapons of mass destruction you have known and loved gives the Bush team a decent shot at securing a second Security Council resolution authorizing the use of force against you. Having to defend that mess of a report should embarrass even the Russians and the French.
Yes, we’re going to go back to the Security Council. Yes, we’ll prostrate ourselves before the SC, so they can give us permission we don’t need to do what needs to be done to salvage their reputation (along with our security). Yes, the process will be overly long, demeaning, and beneath our status as both the hyperpower and the injured party.
Yes, it’s going to be as frustrating as a sober prom date determined to keep her virture.
But that’s the road we’re on, and, like it or not, we’re unlikely to find a reasonable shortcut. The final destination, however, remains the same.
And that’s probably what’s so goddamn frustrating about the whole useless process — having to jump through other people’s hoops in order to get their approval to do what they secretly want us to do, anyway.
NOTE: Bonus points to whichever geeks can identify from where I stole the headline to this post.
Ooh ohh, I know, I know.
Well, thanks to Google anyway.
Something rocky with just a touch of horror, perhaps?
Goggle is for wimps.
Our first bonus points go to Mr. Capitalist Lion.
“… Yes, it’s going to be as frustrating as a sober prom date determined to keep her virture.
“But that’s the road we’re on, and, like it or not, we’re unlikely to find a reasonable shortcut. The final destination, however, remains the same.”
Your larger point is valid but a rape analogy is not.
I agree with Allan! VodkaPundit must step down as leader of the Blogger Majority!
“NIAGRA FALLS!
Slowly I turned… step by step…”
Morris Horowitz, Jerome Horowitz and Larry Fine.
That was NOT a rape analogy. The guy went home frustrated. Duh.
Good to have you back, Stephen.
Allan, did you maybe get a little too frisky with your prom date? (Or maybe your date got fresh with you?) You seem to be projecting onto Stephen because I don’t think anyone else read his comments as though they alluded to rape. Get a grip.
I’m with you on this Stephen. Yes, we all hate the UN, yes it would be better if we didn’t deal with them at all, blah-blah-blah, yada-yada-yada, but as you (and I, in various places) point out, the REALITY is this is our course and we will use it to secure our goal. Just because it takes longer does not imply it works any less effectively.
I would even posit that our position is strengthened due to increased pressure diplomatically, and internally within Iraq, and Iran to some degree too. This all ultimately leads to Sa’ud, and I have to think they will not enjoy seeing our troops dancing with freed Iraqis in the streets of Baghdad.
“Slooooowly I turned…”
Just an FYI, my current contract work has me at a Navy base. Trust me, things are clicking right along. Even if, as it now appears, we were futzing along before, they’re making up for lost time now. Lots more Marines around this week compared to last week, and the SP’s at the gate say things like, “when we raise the threatcon” instead of, “if we raise…”.
mm threat con…
saddam.. “red rover red rover, we call saddam over” CVN JFK…