Yesterday, we found our Spider friend missing, today, the hummingbird (Archilochus colubris)feeder hangs in the breeze, devoid of the speedy little fliers. They've gone south for the winter.
We miss all our wildlife, just like President George W. Bush must be missing the support he used to get from his military commanders.
Over the weekend, retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the former commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, described the Bush Administration as "incompetent" and labeled the Iraq war a "nightmare.""There has been a glaring, unfortunate, display of incompetent strategic leadership within our national leaders. As a Japanese proverb says, 'Action without vision is a nightmare.' There is no question that America is living a nightmare with no end in sight."
Gen. Sanchez, the most senior retired general to speak out against the war, criticized the White House for continuing a "desperate struggle in Iraq without any concerted effort to devise a strategy that will achieve victory. ..." The general specifically mentioned President Bush's surge of 30,000 troops, describing the policy as a "desperate attempt" to evade the realities of a failed foreign policy in Iraq.
The former U.S. commander further argued the surge was "a catastrophically flawed, unrealistically optimistic war plan" and charged the Bush Administration with failing "to employ and synchronize the political, economic and military power.""Who will demand accountability for the failure of our national political leaders involved in the management of this war?" General Sanchez asked. "In my profession, these types of leaders would immediately be relieved or court-martialed."
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