What a war-themed week we've just passed.
President Obama spoke at West Point and, with his usual dispassionate politeness, denounced The Worst Person Who's Ever Lived and his cohorts for killing 4,486 American soldiers and uncounted civilians in Iraq. The head of the VA, who opposed that war at its start, handed in his resignation after a clinic in John McCain's state was exposed as falsifying treatment records. And yesterday, the President announced the release of the last American POW in Afghanistan after five years in captivity — about the same amount of time that McCain spent in the Hanoi Hilton.
We cats have a definite feeling that we're wrapping something up here. When the Commander-in-Chief says that "some of our most costly mistakes came not from our restraint but from our willingness to rush into military adventures without thinking through the consequences," that sound you hear is a page turning.
Not that General Shinseki's resignation will solve all the VA's problems — which, as we recall, date well back into the Worst Person's regime. Work remains. But let's never let the neocons send young Americans into battle so lightly.
All of which means: Cue the other side, and they have not disappointed. True to form, they're raining all over the Bowe Bergdahl parade — a prisoner release they'd be shouting with glee from house tops if it were a Republican President announcing it in the Rose Garden instead of Barack Obama. (We cats fail to see why negotiating with the Taliban is a problem. They're not any more radical than today's GOP.)
You know what, Republicans? Americans don't care. All they know is that a soldier is coming home. And we think your bleating shows that you know that. We cats PURR.
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