Gary Hart: America Could Lose Its Army

If one can remember, this is the guy whom the Reaganites were most afraid of in the then projected '84 general election -- not Walter Bleepin' Mondale. Refreshing nonetheless to get a dose of reality-based analyses on the goings on in the world, if only periodically, and wondering wistfully what might have been.

Meanwhile, back at the Baghdad ranch:

The character of warfare and violence is being transformed. The warfare of the future is not World War II, or even Korea or Vietnam. It is Mogadishu and Fallujah -- low-intensity conflict among tribes, clans, and gangs. We are not prepared for that kind of warfare.

The United States is in danger of finding combat forces trapped in a civil war that they cannot prevent, control, or win.

America's army is in danger, and that danger is possibly just around the corner.

Imagine Dubya the Boy King exhibiting any semblance of coherence with respect to Iraq.

And come to think about it: Donna Rice turned out to be a Christian fundamentalist, didn't she? . . . Those bastards!