It occurred to me while reading the Nytimes front page article on Social Security that the only reason we were able to take control of the debate is because people like Bob Brigham at thereisnocrisis.com took action at the first sign of trouble. All too frequently we wait until something is right in our laps and already damaging before objecting to it (i.e. swift boat liars).
What should be clear by now is that Bush is hell bent on invading Iran. He has simultaneously called this "ridiculous" and claimed that all options are on the table. As we all know, thats bush-speak for: give us a month before we tell you some of the details.
The reason I was thinking about all of this was because a particular passage in Machiavelli's The Prince really hit home:
"If the first signs of trouble are percieved, it is easy to fnd a solution; but if one lets trouble develop, the medicine will be too late, because the malady will have become incurable. And what physicians say about consumptive diseases is also true of this matter, namelt, that at the beginning of the illness, it is easy to treat but difficult to diagnose but, if it has not been diagnosed and treated at an early state, as time passes it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to treat.
This also happens in affairs of state; for if one recognises political problems early (which only a shrewd and far seeing man can do), they may be resolved quickly, but if they are not recognized, and left to develop so that everyone recognises them, there is no longer any remedy."
-Nicolo Machiavelli,
Ch III, The Prince
Its time to move on Iran--lets not pussyfoot around, they are hell-bent on invading somewhere (all war, all the time is their policy).
If we wait to work on public opinion were going to be screwed--this issue has to be taken out NOW!
Whose going to create the thereisnocrisis.com for the to-be iranian conflict?