Some times I can go a couple of days without finding something to rant about.  Today I found TWO!  James Carroll of the Boston Globe provided me with the second today!  He writes;

"INSANITY is defined as repeating one mistaken action again and again, each time expecting a better result that never comes. Prime example: the United States in Iraq. Washington perceived a weapons of mass destruction threat from Saddam Hussein, but instead of responding with diplomacy - internationally coordinated weapons inspections - it went to war. When Saddam Hussein was toppled, the initiative should have passed from the Pentagon to a State Department-led program of stabilization and reconstruction, but instead a crudely violent military occupation was begun. Diplomacy was once again rejected.

Today, the United States, fearing a geo-political setback that will undercut the broader "war on terror," is putting the diehard goal of military "victory" ahead of the diplomatic initiatives that alone can enable the reconstruction of Iraqi society. The needed spirit of cooperation among Iraqi factions, and from other nations, will never materialize as long as the United States pursues the fantasy that its armed might will at last prevail. Once again, diplomacy is being rejected in favor of war. This is insane."

My response to him is as follows;

Mr. Carroll, your ignorance of what is REALLY going on in Iraq is phenomenal.  Try reading what Michael Yon has to say.  He's spent two years on the ground in Iraq embedded with troops both ours and the Brits.  How long have you spent there?

BTW, we were winning in Viet Nam, a fact the media decided not to report, in favor of getting us out of Nam, and lying to the American people...just like you are doing now!

I would also direct you, Mr. Carroll, to my previous post today!