This Is What Playing Hard-ass Gets You

A decently-written piece on why the US's options in the current crisis are limited.

And a piece from the Guardian on why it's never going to amount to much anyway.

Through his actions *** has fostered distrust among his allies, inflamed the hatred of the enemies of America, and driven even the most even-keeled to take a side. So now he has nowhere to turn when the world looks to him for action in a crisis of his own making.

Pat Robertson, who believes in Israeli statehood only because there has to be an Israel to be crushed in the Last Days, must be preparing for the Rapture even now.

For the stability the Iraq war has brought to the Middle East, we thank you, ***.

Impeachment. Bring it on. A boy can dream, can't he?