Is reality setting in?

Putz is officially giving aid and comfort to our enemies.

Just a few days after conceding that the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan is "deteriorating", which no doubt empowers the terrorists, Putz now says Bush is coddling Iran.

AUSTIN BAY writes on fiddling and twiddling with Iran. The loss of momentum in the war reminds me of something that I believe Napoleon (or maybe it was Talleyrand) said: "You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them." Much of the problem in Iraq comes from Iran, and we seem curiously unwilling to do much about it. I wonder -- does Iran already have nuclear weapons, and are we being successfully blackmailed?

Several rather striking things going on here.

After 3 years of mindless, unwavering support of Bush's Iraq war and its prosecution, is it really possible that only now Putz is realizing just how sloppy and ill-conceived a disaster this war has been? Did he not notice that we failed to provide enough troops to secure the borders and maintain law and order, despite the onslaught of foreign policy and military experts who've said this all along? Did he think he was just smarter than they, as he glibly and regularly denounced the war's critics as "defeatists" or "unserious", unpatriotic traitors?

What was he thinking, for instance, as he smeared the generals who called for Rumsfeld to be removed? And what did he think motivated military and foreign policy experts like former Reagan official Gen. William Odom who called Iraq the greatest strategic blunder in US history and former Bush 41 official Gen. Brent Scowcroft who called Iraq "a failing venture" -- two years ago.

And those are just the Republicans. What about calling John Murtha, a 37-year veteran of the Marines, who had the moral and political courage to speak out against the war, a "disgrace"? What about the sneering at Gen. Wesley Clark?

Despite the avalanche of evidence that Iraq has been slowly sliding head first into chaos for over 3 years, despite record civilian casualties, the mounting US losses and the escalating cost of the war, did he ever once stop and think for a moment that criticism of Bush and Rumsfeld might actually be justified, and more important-- useful?

Also, note how Putz conspicuously doesn't mention the President. "We seem curiously unwilling to do much about" Iran. Well, Putz, there's only one person that can do anything about Iran -- the Commander-in-Chief. And instead of calling the 60% of Americans who don't think he's doing a very good job traitors or Bush-haters, you might try holding the President accountable for a change. Just a thought.

Finally, there's nothing "curious" about our inability to do anything about Iran. We've blown that option in blundering into Iraq. The Iranians have seen our failure in Iraq and they're emboldened. We cannot pacify a broken nation of 20 million, that had been wrecked by sanctions for a decade. Invasion and regime change of a unified country of 60 million, with a functional army, now seems impossible.

And yet, despite how badly Bush's Iraq war has hurt the United States, Putz will continue to call the Democrats "feckless" on foreign policy.

One can be thankful, though that perhaps, at least, his idiotic "the media is only telling us the bad news about Iraq to drive Bush's numbers down" meme has finally died.