Deja vu all over again and again and again and again ...

Blithering idiots in the US Congress can't see the forest for their wood ...

Steyn:

" ... There was a TV station somewhere -- was it Thunder Bay, Ontario? -- that used to show a continuous loop of a roaring fireplace all night, and thousands of viewers would supposedly sit in front of it for hours because it was such a reassuringly comforting scene. The networks could save themselves a lot of money by adopting the same approach: Run a continuous loop of a smoking building in Baghdad all night while thousands of congressmen and pundits and think-tankers and retired generals run around Washington shrieking that all is lost. America is way out of its league! A dimwitted tourist in a fearful land of strange people who don't watch "American Idol." Iraq is so culturally alien that not a single Sunni, Shia or Kurd has come forward claiming to be the father of Anna Nicole's baby! ... "

Shades of Chicken Little.

QUAGMIRE!!!

Non-binding resolutions be damned.
Political hacks ... all!

That's not to say I have any respect for the weak-kneed blitherers in my own government.

It's all very disheartening. I remember. It was just a few days after 9/11 that I opened a file in the office that listed an address at the World Trade Centre. I remember understanding that 20 to 30 years was the minimum time required to sort out this mess.

My, and the children of my generation will be remembered as having the shortest attention span in history. Very, very foolish of us.