The Road To Damascus

Now the Dubyanistas are rattling sabers with Syria, suggesting that that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been developing chemical weapons and aiding Iraqi leaders who have escaped Baghdad. Is another war of "regime change" afoot? Granted, Assad - like Bush, a ruthless bully who leads his country only because his father did - is a thug, but without any true reason to march down to the road to Damascus before we've even begun to mop up the mess we made in Iraq? Maybe Bush thinks waging war with other people's children in one Middle Eastern country was so much fun, he wants to do it again!

How's this for a regime change scenario? "November 2, 2004 -- George W. Bush loses his bid for a second term as President of the United States to the Democratic nominee. The newly elected forty-fourth President, (insert name of favorite Democratic candidate here), announces that there will be a change in U.S. foreign policy. There will no longer be any pre-emptive wars against any country potentially posing a threat to the United States; instead, a policy of multilateral containment of such countries will be pursued, and money that would have been spent on pre-emptive military operations will instead be spent on health care, paid family leave, school lunches, and decent public transit."

Let us hope.