The Sunshine Empire

It’s been a mixed bag of good, bad, and ugly on the international scene lately.  Polls open today in Australia for a new legislature and new Prime Minister.  I’ve always found Howard to be a dick, and his is polling behind the Labor Party candidate’s presumptive new PM.  Yet the Conservative polling deficit has closed in recent days and they should be up all night waiting for a result.  If Howard goes down it will mark yet another pro-Bush Administration ally that has been thrown out of office.  As Bush would remind you, “don’t forget about Poland.”  They recently threw out the conservative PM and the new head of government has promised a withdrawal from Iraq.  Bush used the coalition of the willing as part of the basis of the correctness of the action and some semblance of international will being served.  The claim was always that the coalition was in this together.  Now it’s only American boys dying for that worthless cause.

Many conservatives have also been touting a decline in violence in Iraq as a sign that “the surge” is working, and we would love for this to be the case.  Yet as Bill Maher states correctly, this is nothing more than dad not hitting mom when the police are at the door.  The entire underpinning of the surge was that it was supposed to provide breathing room to Maliki and there has yet to be the political agreement that is needed for stability.

Stability in the middle east all comes by way of Israel and the Palestinian territories.  The Administration’s planned peace conference, although 7 years too late, is logic finally coming to the Bush team.  Today’s word that the Saudi government will  participating brings even more legitimacy to the conference and I believe the Syrians could be close to joining as well.  If any progress can be made the United State’s problem with terrorism will improve greatly.  But this all comes as Afghanistan falls further and further into Taliban hands.  This is atrocious and embarrassing, and failure of the highest order.  Of course the main stream evil liberal media cabal is not focusing on it as well.  Most Americans feel as if Afghanistan is behind us and working wonderfully.  Sadly it is not.

Yet as most of the Bush foreign policy work is now currently in flames, this conference is the last shot the president has to have a signature achievement, and I desperately hope he does.  It’s a misnomer of the highest degree that those who disagree with the president want the United States to suffer defeat to cause him damage.  Any who use this argument are out of ideas of their own.  Every single claim that they have made has turned out to be wrong, and they are left with the “pure hate of Bush” line.  They also belie their own absurd hatred of all things Clinton.

I also wanted to discuss the Ayatollah in Iran tacitly allowing withering criticism of  their nut job president to occur in his newspaper.  But I cannot remember how to spell his name so I’m going to leave it short.  Before his rule we where told correctly that Iranian presidents lack any real power, but now he’s the man in charge.  If we just leave them alone they seem like they don’t like him either.

I didn’t even get to the lack of a president in Lebanon.