The Last Throes and The Final Stretch—Defining an Administration
Thus the necessity of not failing has become a cornerstone of the new reality within the Bush White House. All talk of success in Iraq has been taken off the menu, like yesterday’s leftovers.
When the goal becomes impossible, one hypothesis is merely to move the goal posts. It may not be intellectually honest, but we are in times when public opinion is so blindingly quick to forget and yet ready to accept its own particular brand of prejudices, that few seem to notice.
Thus the necessity of not failing has become a cornerstone of the new reality within the Bush White House. All talk of success in Iraq has been taken off the menu, like yesterday’s leftovers.
Doggedly and at the cost of unparalleled carnage our vicious and uncompromising vice-president continues to see victory in the ruins. His prognostication is unerringly wrong, his past positions consistently disproven and yet he and his agents dominate foreign-policy discussion and decision within the administration.
Never has a vice-pr…