 merrie says: What any prosecutor or defense attorney will tell you about jury deliberations … how long they’re out doesn’t necessarily tell you anything. It could mean they are trying really hard to convince themselves that abandonment will work … and to find a way to convince America and the world that an easy out is the considered, sensible thing to do. Or it could be that they know what they need to do, they are just afraid to do it. Afraid of the consequences of angering their anti-war lefty base, afraid of remaining committed to a war with a horizon past 2010 and 2012. But that’s about as charitable and optimistic a view as is possible, and assumes they actually want to find a way to do the right thing. Unfortunately, there has been little to indicate that is what they are interested in doing. What makes this less like jury deliberations and more like a Shakespearean tragedy, though, is that every now and then, a major player sticks his head out to shout something. But even that remains confusing. Gates, a company man who has been cautious, publicly declaims against abandoning Afghanistan, a ”strategic mistake.” Hillary Clinton, to her credit, has said more or less the same thing. Meanwhile, Obama in both word and deed has made it pretty clear he thinks both America and America force of arms are the problem and not the solution in the world, and that any lip service he paid to looking tough during the campaign was just one of those things American politicians must do to get elected. You could call that UN speech a “not to be” soliloquy without any “be” in it at all. Biden … a sort of unsophisticated, unimpressive Falstaff; who would take this fool’s co... |
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