Perilous

Our Armed Forces are at the breaking point as it is, and this is supposed to help?:

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced yesterday that all active-duty soldiers currently deployed or going to Iraq and Afghanistan will see their one-year tours extended to 15 months, acknowledging that such a strain on the war-weary Army is necessary should the ongoing troop increase be prolonged well into next year.

The decision - coming three months after President Bush put forth his new security plan for Iraq, including the deployment of at least 28,000 additional troops there - reflects the reality that the new strategy is unfeasible without introducing longer Army tours.

I could go into a rather long babble about a lot of things here, but I am pressed for time this morning. Suffice it to say, the President's incompetence from Day 1 (and by "Day 1" I mean the morning of 9/11) has taken the country to the brink. That dark day required a full-scale change in military and social strategy, including (much to the chagrin of my fellow progressives) a full-scale military and domestic service draft. The short-sightedness and incomptence of this President are unprecedented and have brought the United States to a perilous point. We have just less than two years to go under his "leadership." The thought of that, let alone the reality, makes me shudder.