Sitting Up In the Coffin
Preemptive war as a national security strategy died in the first years of its practice. Keeled over. Stiff as a board. Morte. In these times when no one wants to be where we find ourselves, and the blame-game is the only game in town, most of us thought the funeral had already been held. Right?
America, it seemed, looking around for a fight to pick, found just too many candidates out there in the big, wide world. And darnned if some of them weren’t unreliable as well. Iraq, for instance. Just where were all those weapons of mass destruction? Tens of thousands dead, a country totally wrecked, rampant civil war and we can’t even find an excuse to limp home.
Who's to preempt? Iran? Not bloody likely to get permission from anybody other than Dick Cheney for that one. Antagonize China? Then they’ll want their money back and besides that, Wal-Mart would never allow it. Russia is starting to look like the old adversarial Russia again. Nah, there’s no preempting those guys, they have too many n…