Sorry for light posting today. We’re trying to attend sessions at the Alternative Newsweeklies convention here.
We heard Wesley Clark this morning. He got a rousing reception. He started slowly — we liked his capsule history of Arkansas, but we live here — but picked up steam. His political outlook was popular in the room and the breadth and depth of his understanding of war, peace, economics, education and more were obvious and forcefully expressed. His explanation of how we arrived where we are in Iraq and how we must work our way out of it — with an unavoidable continued commitment of troops — should be mandatory viewing side-by-side with that of the nominal commander in chief.
And speaking of Iraq, U.S. Rep. Vic Snyder has a typically thoughtful statment on the House Republicans’ ploy to pass a stay-the-course resolution. Read it on the jump.(As a reader noted, it didn’t stop Snyder and the rest of the Ark. delegation from voting for the largely meaningless resolution — an election year ploy — against setting a specific withdrawal date.)