Staying the Course (again)

MANIFESTO

The more the Bushies keep falling back on the "We've got to wait for General Petraeus's report before we can do anything about Iraq" argument, the more obvious it becomes that this is just like their "We've got to wait for the Iraq Study Group's report before we can do anything about Iraq" dodge.

Just as they did absolutely nothing when the latter came out (Wait a minute: They did do something. They ignored it.), it seems that waiting for the Petraeus report (as if he had anything new to add to the description of the morass) is just another way they can wait this fiasco out so that others can clean up their mess.

It goes without saying that the hope is that the next administration—and the 111th Congress, for that matter—won't have the mindset of a bunch of four-year-olds.