Impeach him. Impeach him now.

[elfs]

So, we've lost the war in Afghanistan.

In a treaty that will "end five years of border fighting," Pakistan has signed a peace deal with the Taliban, giving the Taliban complete and unfettered authority over the Pakistani province of North Waziristan. The Pakistani military was taking a terrible beating at the hands of the Taliban and this accord is regarded as a "face saving retreat" by the Pakistan government. The head of the Pakistani military said that if Bin Laden is in North Waziristan, he will not be taken into custody "as long as he is behaving as a peaceful citizen."

So, here's where we are, Mr. Bush: five years after 9/11, what seemed like a successful military prosecution of the terrorist organization that housed and safetied public enemy #1 was left to drift by the draining of troops to a second war, a war of choice with no clear objective. In that gap, Al Qaeda and the Taliban found safe haven in a Pakistani province they have now completely secured.

And unlike Afghanistan, we dare not send troops into Waziristan. It's Pakistani territory all the same, and if we challenge Pakistani sovereignty the government of Pervez Musharraf will collapse. Any following government will be more solidly Islamic, probably Shia', and will have access to fifteen working nuclear warheads and the missles to deliver them, plus the technology needed to build more. If there's one thing the Islamic tradition has going for it, it's patience.

So, here's where we are, Mr. Bush: even more unstable, insecure, and tragically unprepared. Bin Laden is a piker in the course of history: he's killed a few thousand Americans, making his success insignificant compared to the casualty counts of WW1, WW2, the internal brutality of the Soviet Union, or even the American Civil War, and yet we casually compare him to the worst villians of all four. Thanks to our administration's incompetence, he may yet acheive his dream of infliciting real harm.

Comments

[nbarnes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the FISA debates of the late 90s are a great source of quotes for people interested in seeing how Republicans' views on executive power have... evolved from 1998 to 2005. I didn't bring them up because they're not directly relevant to the thread's obstensible purpose, but if we cared to debate the 'impeach Bush' aspect, they're certainly relevant. Personally, I feel that Bush's admission that he ignored both FISA and Geneva constitute prima facie grounds for quick and sure impeachment.