Hillary Clinton is particularly upset about Halliburton's latest. The government's decision to permit Halliburton without competition to devour so much of the multi-billion dollar fund available for Iraq's so-called reconstruction was bad, yes. But now, if you can believe it, Halliburton wants to open up shop in - Oh Lord - Dubai! Where the heck is that again? Somewhere over there, near all those Middle Eastern and Asian countries that are taking all our jobs away, or were responsible for 9/11, or otherwise need a dose of good-old American values.
Somebody in Hillary's campaign has decided this is just the hook they need to rub the Republican's nose in the muck. How dare Halliburton take all that money off to Dubai? One supposes that it all would have been fine if the Halliburton HQ were to remain squarely in Texas, where the US Government has been so effective at overseeing Halliburton to date (that is, if rudely generous bank deposits = oversight).
Good stuff indeed, and once again confidence instilling. Successful campaigns know how to pick their battles. Must be Hillary is running for the town welcoming committee.
Monday, March 12, 2007
Oh Andy
So Andy Rooney goes on TV last night (CBS' 60 Minutes) to say that he thinks the USA should re-institute the draft. He thought he'd never say that, having hated being drafted himself in 1941. But he can't seem to stand the thought of the USA being "represented" in Iraq (or other places in wartime) by the "bottom of the barrel" of our society - folks who are not even high school graduates (heavens) or, worse, convicted criminals.
Agreed - how must an Iraqi militant or civilian look down his/her nose at the fellow with a gun at that nose, since that fellow so obviously didn't even earn a high school diploma? Ouch. How the USA is suffering.
Andy seems to have stopped THINKING on this subject, no? He seems inexplicably unwilling to consider that the entire Iraq war enterprise just might be more of a driver of Iraqi disdain for the US than the (lack of) education of the US soldiers ever could be. That the President's administration is widely considered to scorn education. That there may be an unfortunate perceived parallel between that scorn and the armed "representation" Andy has in Baghdad.
Sorry Andy. Perhaps a softer arm chair would help ease the pain?
Agreed - how must an Iraqi militant or civilian look down his/her nose at the fellow with a gun at that nose, since that fellow so obviously didn't even earn a high school diploma? Ouch. How the USA is suffering.
Andy seems to have stopped THINKING on this subject, no? He seems inexplicably unwilling to consider that the entire Iraq war enterprise just might be more of a driver of Iraqi disdain for the US than the (lack of) education of the US soldiers ever could be. That the President's administration is widely considered to scorn education. That there may be an unfortunate perceived parallel between that scorn and the armed "representation" Andy has in Baghdad.
Sorry Andy. Perhaps a softer arm chair would help ease the pain?
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