Centrism and Iraq

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  1. Perhaps a phoenix will rise from the Middle East ashes.
    The new paradigm may be “dialogue” along the lines of The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. The OSCE is the world’s largest regional security organization whose 56 participating States span the geographical area from Vancouver to Vladivostok. This would be a change from the Buckaroo style of Bush.
    The more our diplomats interact the more chances to seize on openings in our posturing. The more chances of finding mutual ways to save face. The more chances for commerce. The more ways for the moderate middle classes to find hope.

  2. First of all, thank you for bringing reality into this topic. I agree with everything you say but find one disturbing item for our government in this. This is the conflict between policy and poltitics. In the good old days, politicians spent most of their time governing and a small fraction getting elected. Now, they seem to spend almost all their time either gathering money for elections, positioning for the elections or actually running. Witness that the mid-terms are just over and several people have already announced their run for the White House two years from now.
    It seems that the only groups capable of actually setting policy (or setting new direction) are independent study groups; not the White House, definitely not the Congress. The politicians aren’t doing what we ostensibly elect them to do, which is to govern and make the hard decisions. This they farm out to independent study groups, giving the politicians cover for accepting policies their “base” would not readily accept. Doesn’t both the Senate and House have committe’s designed to do what the Iraqi Study commission is doing. And doesn’t it have both Republican and Democratic representation.
    I must be missing something here.

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