Stink at the postwar, get blown off by Iran

ARTICLE: With Iran Ascendant, U.S. Is Seen at Fault: Arab Allies in Region Feeling Pressure, By Anthony Shadid, Washington Post, Tuesday, January 30, 2007; Page A01

Our allies back away slowly, Iran promises more pain, Bush makes more threats.

Iraq's postwar done well, none of this unfolds.

Iraq's postwar botched, all of this in inevitable.

That's why improving our postwar capabilities isn't an option, it's an imperative.

Unless you like being blown off by the Iranians.

Between Baghdad and New Orleans, our inability to do the postwar shortened Bush's effective presidency by two-and-a-half years.

Problem is, he's still in office.

If he truly understood the challenge, he wouldn't leave that lack of capacity as a legacy. He'd want the next president to do better.

And if Cheney really cared about the presidency as much as he claims, he wouldn't be wasting its political capital so. He'd leave the office better than he found it.

Thanks to Brandon Winters for sending this.