Thursday 23 August 2007

Bring On The Old Warhorses

Is it any wonder that Chirac, veteran of the war in Algeria, was right about Iraq while the draft-dodging Bush and Cheney were spectacularly wrong? And however wicked the Vietnam War might have been (for we must not forget that that era was one of score draw between Democratic support for Civil Rights and Republican opposition to the war), would there not be a striking historical incompleteness if no one who served in Vietnam ever became President?

So draft Jim Webb in 2008. Failing that, John McCain would be no worse than any of the others, and a great deal better than some, most of all the erstwhile "Co-President" who failed to deliver universal health care but who backed up to the hilt her chickenhawk husband as he bombed Yugoslavia to smithereens.

Webb, McCain, Chirac: such old warhorses might look dreadful on television, but they are extremely unlikely to go shooting up the world.

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