The 2006 election is over and in 6 or 7 weeks, the end-result may be in. Until then I’ll stick to my prediction. As one could expect, the Democrats have already begun their typical party infights with the party right side trying to screw the voters and the activists, now that their part is done.
But let us look ahead and at two recent other issues.
The next election in 2008 will of course be about Iraq. The unsolved and hard to be discussed question will be if, when and how to declare victory and retreat from Baghdad.
I exspect a run McCain/Lieberman versus Clinton/Obama – both pairs with an unspoken agenda to escalate that war one way or another. Unitil then – lots of constitutional crisis over the phantasy of "the unitary executive".
The UN sanctions on Iran seem not to materialize. The US wants a military option included, of course never to be used, it says, but others won’t agree. And why should they trust any US commitment, when its ambassador publicly lies about their positions:
“I don’t know how we’re going to work it out because the Russian version is very different than what we think the foreign ministers agreed to,” Mr. Bolton said.
[…]
Contesting Mr. Bolton’s point, Mr. Churkin said, “We believe that our attitude, approach and our proposals are fully in conformity with the understanding by the ministers.”Siding with the Russian, Mr. Wang said, “The readout that we are hearing from the ambassadors here is not the same that we agreed to.”
Upps – looks like Bolton screwed up again.
On the dark side of the day is the Israeli "repositioning" out of the Gaza strip. Like the war on Libanon this was a totally useless and unproductive endevour for the Israeli side and a tragedy for the Palestine people.
Just like the IDF left Lebanon with a shower of millions of cluster bomblets, their current goodbye to Gaza was deadly. They killed 18 members of one family, including 8 children by shelling them with a salvo of 155 mm’s.
"Sorry, wrong coordinates" the IDF says.
Sure – want to buy this bridge here too?
