A Bush of All Trades, a Master of None.

This is part of a blog started on Friday, but being that I was at my internship
and actually had to do work, I couldn't finish until now - January 28

AP reported today that Condi Rice has appealed to
international allies in our fight against "terror", this time shifting US
and World focus on a previously forgotten stronghold of "terror" :
Afghanistan.

Osama's place of refuge.
His fortress of solitide.
His pimped out crib.

I use the word forgotten in a public sphere sense of the word. We should
never discredit the 11,800
US troops, representing over 1/3 of the NATO coalition force in
Afghanistan . I simply mean that we don't actively recognize that this
is where it all started. Remember this guy:


We were after him at one point. But in a stunning performance of
hyppcritical "cut-and-run", we left .. and went after this guy:




OK, so we got the latter. And yeah, he was put to death. But violence
within Iraq most certainly has not seen any dramatic decreases. Plus, a
report made by Afghani, US, and Nato officials have stated a sharp
increase of casualities within the past few months, in the ball park of
4,000 people

Casualties in Afghanistan have risen sharply in recent months as an
emboldened Taliban widened military operations and suicide attacks. Some 4,000 people died in insurgency-related violence in
Afghanistan last year, according to numbers from Afghan, U.S. and NATO
officials.

And now, President Bush has publically announced his authorization of
Iraq-based soldiers to "take whatever actions are necessary
to counter Iranian agents deemed a threat to American troops or the public
at large". Certainly not completely to his descredit. You have to
allow the troops to defend themselves at all costs.

But let's face it. This is just like a gang war, and President "Ja-Rule"
Bush, beefin' with Mahmoud "50 Cent" Ahmadinejad , has just produced an
ill track slamming G-Unit.

In laymens terms, we're adding fuel to the fire right now. Coming out
publically and targetting Iranians in Iraq is adding fuel to fire. Are
they supplying insurgents with weaponry and IED - improvised exploding
devices? Yes. But we're supposed to be spreading diplomacy aimed at peace
in the Middle East. Why are we concerned with publically flipping off our
inevitable adversaries on the battle field? Its obvious we have a future agenda with Iran,
but shouldn't we be focusing on the task at hand: succeeding in Iraq. We're spreading
ourselves too thin here.

We want Iran to adhere to U.N. regulations, but we invaded Iraq without U.N. backing.
We want to spread diplomacy and peace throughout the world, but starting conflicts throughout the world.

A Bush of all trades, a master of none. Iraq, Afghanistan, and soon to be Iran, Syria,
and Korea. 21,500 troops is just the beginning of the amount of military force we'll have to
commit to the war on "terror".