Condi Rice's Diplomacy of Ever-Increasing Pressure
Sometimes, Condi, the work of the Secretary of State is to lessen pressures throughout the world. Your boss’s ‘bring ‘em on’ mentality has us stretched to the breaking-point militarily.
What better way to take the political heat off a litany of failures and reversals than to take on another war? If Karl’s timing is right, the invasion of Iran will occur a month or so before the November elections.
That would be September of this year. Good weather for desert warfare. A reminder to the electorate not to change political horses in the middle of a stream, no matter that it’s a stream of errors, duplicities, mismanagement, tactical blunders, buck-passing, corporate greed, profiteering and chaos.
A case can be made, Madam Secretary, that pressure outside America is already at a maximum, what with
Egypt canceling promised elections
Hamas winning the national election in Palestine
Sharon on his death-bed and the opportunists sharpening knives
Saddam running his own trial in Iraq
Muslim rage inflamed…