The War Party's Fucked.

[Mark Bennett]

There is no face-saving exit strategy.  If the junta were to back off now it
would suffer a catastrophic defeat, both at home and internationally.  This,
of course would be good thing, a very good thing, but the junta cannot it
allow it to happen.  That is why there will be war, no matter how the
Security Council votes, no matter what the Turkish government does, and no
matter how many people take to the streets world-wide to denounce the
madness.   The junta has painted itself into a corner, and, for it, failure
is not an option.  If it is thwarted in its lust for Iraqi real estate and
resources by mere public opinion and the exercise of democracy in some
raggedy-ass client state like Turkey, it can kiss global hegemony goodbye.

Lou Paulsen wrote:

Even if they are frantically looking for a face-saving exit strategy, they 
will talk about how confident they are up to the moment of exit, and will
then 
discover the virtues of some compromise and claim victory.

LP 
> mike larkin wrote:
> 
> >http://www.antiwar.com/justin/justincol.html
> 
> Well yeah. But we were watching the late rerun of the Brit Hume show
> on Fox News last night, and I said to Liza, "I spend the day reading 
> email and websites and think, maybe there won't be a war after all. 
> And now I'm watching Fox and it seems inevitable." Ok, that's Fox. 
> But then the front page of the NY Times this morning says that Powell 
> is optimistic they'll win the SC vote. Maybe he's using the same vote 
> counting methodology that served him so well with Turkey. But really 
> - would Powell say this if the Capitol Hill Blue story were right? 
> Why would he act so sure less than a week away from the SC vote?
> 
> Doug