Wonderland

I have friends who are infuriated at Bush's constant triggering of acts and policies that inflame our enemies as well as our friends in Europe, the Middle East, the Southern Hemisphere, everywhere. Why, they wonder, does he persist in this? These acts cause nothing but friction, tension, fear and conflict. Why?
I answer--as do knowledgable others--he does this because his continued existence as a politician requires the maintenance of such condtions, particularly fear and conflict. Bush, without them, would vanish as a force.
But our salvation is this. If Bush had immediately outed the leakers of the Plame-CIA connection, thereby dousing the conflagration before it got "traction" (a mixed metaphor, I know), the media would soon have nothing to report on the subject. But no--out of his same crisis-oriented nature, Bush has determined to "stonewall" and "dissemble" (both Watergate terms), leaving the reporters with no choice but to gnaw on the story until it provides nourishment.
The promotion of conflict, the avoidance of responsibility and the absence of truth by the Bush Administration, heretofore its sustenance, will now be its downfall. As a Bush-hater, my urgent prayer is that our president keeps on lying and (I hate myself for thinking this, but honor myself for admitting it to you readers) that our troops keep on dying. If we can keep Bush in that mode for another year, we can beat him.
Wonderland