Battling \’The McCain Doctrine\’
Saturday is a travel day for me.
I leave D.C. knowing that it all begins this coming week. It starts with 100
hours, then from there the work gets tough.
Mr. Bush will be laying out his plan for escalation, while his friend Joe Lieberman has a nasty brain fart over the possibilities. Real Democrats need to meet the Bush-Lieberman demands with strong resistance, plus a good dose of reality.
Meanwhile, the military shake up is already underway. Army Lt. Gen. David Petraeus will not replace Abizaid, but Casey instead. Gen. Casey will replace Gen. Peter Schoomaker as Army chief of staff.
Abizaid\’s replacement is Adm. William J. Fallon, the combatant commander for the Pacific region. That\’s right, Admiral Fallon, no doubt an amazing military man, but probably the worst choice possible for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that he has no Middle East experience, as far as I can tell. This appointment likely won\’t do Fallon\’s resume any good either.
Speaker Pelosi
and the Democrats oppose Mr. Bush\’s plan to escalate in Iraq, also called
\”The McCain Doctrine,\” by John Edwards. Mind you, McCain doesn\’t just want a 20-40,000 surge, but a \”substantial, sustained surge.\”
Rand Beers\’s group, the National Security Network, calls it the \”Bush-McCain Doctrine.\” The NSN also outlines how many times a military escalation in Iraq has previously failed.
But if at first Mr. Bush does not succeed, it\’s fail, fail again.
What will happen? Bush is on one side, with Democrats and the American people on the other. However, we are joined by Republicans who also sense the disaster in Mr. Bush\’s new idea for Iraq. But when a Republican president loses the likes of Oliver North, the other shoe hasn\’t just dropped, it\’s been chopped off at the knees.
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