The trouble with diplomacy *eyeroll*

[icarus]

Bush strikes new levels of dumb.

'You know, the problem with diplomacy is it takes a while to get something done …'

Across the world, every diplomat and politician just dropped their collective jaws, thinking 'no shit, Sherlock' in thirty different languages.

Wow. I never knew how clueless he was. He's been doing this job for five and half years and doesn't even get the job description? I don't know about you but if I've been in a job for five years, no matter how little I know about it initially, I'd have figured out the basics by now.

That's like a financial analyst saying: "The problem with the stock market is that it goes up and down."

A backpacker: "The problem with backpacking is you have to carry everything with you."

A climber: "The problem with rock climbing is it's hard on the hands."

Driving: "The problem with driving a car is you have to pay attention."


The rest of Bush's quote reads that while "acting alone, you can move quickly."

wildernessguru: "This is an administration that believes we can do anything with the barrel of a gun."

Yes. I saw a great bumper sticker about this yesterday. We're making enemies faster than we can kill them.

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[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

We're bogged down in Iraq so N. Korea can do what it wants. They know we're toothless at the moment -- all we have are some planes stationed in Guam and our troops in S. Korea have an enormous amount of ordnance aimed at them.

The DoD has claimed for years that they could fight two wars at a time, but what they've neglected to mention is that we don't have the manpower to do so with our all-volunteer military. At the moment all branches of the military are 46% short of their recruitment targets -- and that's just for Iraq. We're relying on Stop-Loss to keep our military personnel.

Also, our anti-balistic missile system doesn't work -- it's the modern pie-in-the-sky Star Wars program (if you recall the Reagan era).

The only thing that could contain N. Korea right now is China. They have the world's largest standing army, a rapidly modernizing navy, and okay, their aircraft are still out of date but even the U.S. couldn't fight China's air forces: it would be a turkey shoot, but we'd run out of missiles before they ran out planes.

Icarus