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• Tuesday, October 14, 2008 02:27 PM

  Winning strategies for McCain?

  Here's a thought. Maybe McCain could, with "pretty please" permission from the Pakistani government (if anyone can locate it), fly into the border tribal regions to do battle, mano a mano, with Osama (or does he think it's Obama?) bin Laden. If he can't wring bin Laden's neck, maybe he could at least disconnect him from his dialysis machine until he pees to death. Maybe McCain could even crash another jet on the way there (or back), about the only way he could salvage his reputation at this point.

  Somewhat more seriously, I do fear a game changer from al-Qaida in the closing weeks. So far as I can determine, Bush and Cheney have played almost perfectly into Osama's hands over the past seven years, and there is every reason to believe McCain would do the same. (So far as I can tell, all three are doing their best to re-fight the Vietnam War, which Bush and Cheney, unlike McCain, found inopportune the first time around.) The US continues to bleed lives and treasure, all the while alienating our former allies and stimulating legions of volunteers for terrorist organizations. The risk that Obama might reconsider our losing strategies, and restore America to a position of respect and leadership in the world, must surely terrify our terrorist adversaries, and encourage a pre-election move by them to prolong the Bush-McCain follies that have done such damage to our standing in the world-- not to speak of our capacity to respond to world-wide threats.

  The question is whether the American electorate might be stupid enough to fall for it (yet again).

  —The Wise Bard Read The Wise Bard's other letters
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