Sometimes one must state the obvious

Sometimes the king has no clothes, even if it takes a child to say the obvious. This parable applies to today.

It is obvious the Iraq war was has been mismanaged in D.C. Our present leaders in the Executive and Congress have few even interagency ideas of what to do (or cannot overcome it) in any third world conquest, and after attack on our country. The high school version and Congressional version of fad now is to bail out, and to pontificate about it, apparently with the most silly media coverage.

We have elected the wrong leaders, though leader may be the incorrect term. The present people there seem more like professional politicians and at best local politicians who can not think in a National sense beyond pontificating, which is being kind. And the present talk about how to pull out of this mess never mentions the consequences of doing so. If only the world were friction free and without consequences. That the charade that is amplified in the media of somehow being hood winked is appalling. We all have memories, to include the debate and the vote. Many politicians may seek to pretend and report otherwise, and the media may cover up, but many citizens have to live in the real world. They are worth listening to ... before the next vote.

And it is our National Defense and Interest at stake, as if that seems to matter in the confident thoughts of the present political leaders.

The terrible consequences of the mismanagement of the Iraq war is that so many citizens are fed up enough to quit, plain and simple. Talk about a Catch 22. We're damned if we do and damned if we are not. Unfortunately life and the military is not a Catch 22 movie and the irony of the movie is not a foreign policy.
There are alternatives to just politically quitting in some sort of mollifying way to American voters.

First is the leaders we need. They are not presently elected and in charge today, but we most certainly must elect them in the future. These Americans are everywhere, and they are not the people in D.C. today. They are Americans like Ike who got us out of Korea, or Reagan who attacked Gaddafi after the killings by them in Germany, or those today just waiting to be called. The obvious principle is that they thought National Defense, and knew when talk ended and power talked in dealing with these mostly small level despots today. Perhaps that is the most king has no clothes element today that is astounding. This is not multiculturalism; this is our National Defense and our way of life. And after all, we are dealing with despots, not the likes of Gandhi or King.