The Iraqi congress has decided to take a two week vacation in July and August. Yeah, so part of the whole 'surge gives the Iraqi leaders breathing time' thing, will be spent on vacation. Lovely. Not unexpected, I suppose. Given that I am always cynical about this war.
Carl Levin notes another sad quote:
And incredibly, Hasan Suneid, a lawmaker and adviser to Prime Minister Maliki, was quoted in the paper the other day as saying that “time is irrelevant.” Well time is plenty relevant to us, our troops and their families.
If you are surprised by that attitude you lack a basic understanding of what's underlying this whole war. That's ok though, big brains like Bill Krystol don't understand it either. They don't see the two thousand year civil war that has been raging between Sunni and Shia. Bill, in fact, called talk of such a thing 'pop psychology' in the run-up to the war. (Which begs the question; why does he still have a job when his is wrong about everything).
Yes, it's sad, time is irrelevant when you are trying to resolve conflicts that have raged for generations. And two months, in the grand scheme of two thousand years, yeah, not such a big deal.
Unless your us, who are stuck there, waiting for these guys to work it out... Which they won't... By the way.
But then again, Bush is playing a waiting game as well. Hoping to string out his remaining support just long enough to saddle the next administration with the withdrawal. He thinks that will save his legacy. Whatever the hell that means. I'm not really sure how adding another 2,000 U.S. soldiers to the body count will raise him up from his inevitable spot as "worst president in history".
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