Dateline Maqlub.

Well its been a few days since our last snow, and it seems to be melting pretty well. This left us with some pretty muddy terrain. Not just your typical mud-on-the-street mud, but monty-python-bring-out-your-dead mud. Alot of goings on recently up here. We had that “detention” of Iranian diplomats over in Irbil and the Presidential address.

I can’t sit here and listen to that without thinking these policies we pursue don’t make any sense. I don’t know why we cant see that this halfway hardass act wont work. I’m sure most people in public office have read Machiavelli’s Prince. It should be a given that you cant do the fear me/love me thing at once. If we are going to be rude hard charging assholes, do it, but don’t go halfway. That is exactly what we are trying right now, and that is why we will ultimately fail. /sigh. Till Later.

-Duke