THE PEACE RALLY WAS NICE on Saturday. In today's Times Steven Weisman has an excellent long piece chronicling the missteps and hamhanded bungling that has led us to this point--bombs will fall in Baghdad in the next 24 hours. People will die. And it's partially because of the administration's arrogant "anointed" foreign policy, and partially because retreat from this idiotic precipice would cause the United States to "lose face."

Robin Cook resigned today as leader of the British House of Commons. He is in Tony Blair's own party, mind you. Can we really imagine any U.S. politician making such a stand? Particularly when the cost is real--as Commons Leader, he would make about £124,000 annually, while as a backbencher he will make about £55,000.
- posted by thegusdad @ 3/17/2003 11:13:00 AM