I beginning to think that Nathan may be right on this score. Bush has a relatively narrow window of oppurtunity to work in. If he isn't prepared to use his troops soon, then he is going to have to start bringing them home. Meanwhile the diplomatic and political problems for Bush and his allies abroad continue to accumulate, without any sign that they are going to quickly better for Bush or them.
Interestingly enough, Mark Jones (remember him Doug?), for reasons similar to those that Nathan cites, has been predicting for some time that Bush may not be able to go to war, and that will be forced into a humiliating withdrawl of American forces from the Middle East. We shall see.
Jim F.
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 18:28:11 -0500 "Nathan Newman"
<nathanne at nathannewman.org> writes:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "soil ride" <solrde at msn.com
> >My apocalyptic prediction:
>
> Jesus C-----!
>
> Can't anyone on the left ever accept the idea of the possibility of
> winning
> a round?
>
> Are folks just so completely wedded to the romance of defeat?
>
> Sure Bush may try something and he may even pull his war out of the
> dumpster, but his options have narrowed because of global organizing
> by left
> and popular forces worldwide.
>
> His popularity is falling and that of his global allies in Spain,
> Australia,
> Britain and Italy have plunged. People in the US are actively make
> fun of
> his "orange alerts", thereby diminishing his power to use the
> "terrorist
> threat" card to revive his fortunes. He's gone to that well once
> too often.
>
> But I return to my amazement that folks seem wedded to the
> impossibility of
> victory.
>
> There is a pathology of hopelessness on the left that I think is
> rooted in
> the comfort that the impossibility of victory means that no
> compromises must
> ever be made, since it won't make any difference anyways.
>
> -- Nathan
>
>
>
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