Blind spots and duplicity

Once again this administration and its minions are incapable of approaching problems honestly. I have written on this blog about Karen Hughes. I once thought that this administration's hypocrisy was a conscious choice. I have come to believe that they are incapable of seeing things as they really are: Iran, Iraq, the war on "terrorism" all have been exposed as examples of their incapability to approach problems in an honest forthright way, Lebanon is a case in point.

W accuses the Iranians of supplying rockets and arms to the militias of Hezbollah. He says they must be disarmed and bullies and demands that the Lebanese government and military do this job. And yet he is incapable of seeing the reality that the Lebanese people view the United States as doing the same thing with Israel. Israelis see Iranian rockets rain down on towns in Israel and say this is intolerable. Lebanese and Iranians see American bombs falling on their towns and killing their people and the United States says this is Israel defending its territory and people. W ignores or is incapable of seeing this as an honest view, worthy of an explanation and dialogue. If he disagrees he dismisses the others concerns.

Taking this as a back drop, where is the parallel outrage with Iraq? Where is the call to disarm the militias in Iraq by this administration? No where to be found. If the overall philosophy is non governmental paramilitary organizations have no quarter to exist why aren't the US armed forces and their Iraqi brethren disarming militias in Iraq? Where is the urgency? What are the priorities? Stay the course is a nice bumper sticker, Rovian political babble but, it is not something that works off the bumper in the real world.

Everything is not a political campaign. Sometimes political leaders have to govern and not approach every problem as partisan politics. You can always throw political bombs as if everyone with differing views of a failed policy is a political opponent but that is not what the real world needs and the rest of the world is getting tired of this administration not leading in a constructive way. Hey, but they hate us for our freedom, right?