….according to NBC anyway. That verdict has long been declared by the rest of us who haven’t been sleeping under a rock for the past year and a half.

Now, and I don’t do this often, stubborn hard-ass as I am, I must make a retraction of a previous sentiment I once conveyed. I once advocated a rapid withdrawal of US forces from Iraq, and in the near future. I must concede this gross miscalculation, I have since realized the monumental ill-repercussions that would result from such a naive, hell outright idiotic foreign policy maneuver.

Allright, its true, its undoubtable, its indisputable, and its something I’ll never, ever change my mind on. The Iraq war was an unfathomably horrendous idea of a war, one of the biggest, if not the biggest foreign policy mistake of the last century. It was a pipedream concocted by muscle-head, militarist ideologue neoconservative villains. It was inspired by a penis-measuring urge to prove America’s dominance and disgusting overestimation of its ability to spread democracy on the ashes of a dismantled infrastructure. Not to mention downright vile greed. It was a war that is never undeserving of the most severe reproach.

But we’re there. We’ve created a hellish wildfire of chaos, and today its “officially” a civil war. We can’t just make a 6 month time-table and leave now. The Democrats, intellect-starved jackasses (what a fitting logo for a party) as they are, are using the expediencies of general public discontent with the war to push for early withdrawal, just as a ploy to gain popularity. Subservient monkeys till the end, they supported the war when it was popular and now want us to cut and run when its not, even when its a completely unreasonable goal.

Simply leaving Iraq in a state of turmoil isn’t going to resolve anything, the chaos is going to remain, and whats worse, our enemies will become stronger. Not only will terror cells be able to boast that they “drove back the Americans”, but our ever eiminent enemy Iran has the true potential of completely overrunning the place. Iraq’s chief cleric, Ayatolllah al-Sistani is Iranian, Muqtada al Sadr is a Shia militia leader with dreams of transforming Iraq into an Iran-esque Islamo-fascist state. Just leaving such a volatile situation so quickly would be cowardly, quite frankly, not to mention foreign policy suicide.

Its an incredibily difficult task to tackle, no doubt about it. I don’t know the answer, it would seem to me that having behind-the-scenes talks with Iran and Syria, as dangerous as they may be, would be a good place to start. You have to play the game, as difficult as it may be sometimes to play with dangerous assholes. But you have to play the game. I’m certainly not advocating permanant military bases in Iraq, that would be too imperialistic, unnecessary, and would most definitely spawn more hatred and cannon-fodder for anti-American propaganda in the region.

But we have to stay untill the job is done, now is no time for whimsical fantasies of early withdrawal. Toughen up boys, you volunteered by your own will, you’re America’s finest, its time to earn your namesake.

Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize winning father of libertarianism, the only legitimate perspective on economics, has passed away. A titan amongst a sea of unproductive cynical leeches, Friedman’s revolutionary modern revitalizationon laissez-faire has been the basis of economic thought for the last century.

A terrible, almost theatrically untimely death. At a time when neosocialists are executing a vicious coup d’etat against capitalism, when inevitable travesties like raising the minimum wage, socialized healthcare and industrial regulation are just on the horizon, our oldest voice of reason departs us. John Galt, where art thou?

In the world of academia, highly segregated cliques have generally dominated their own unique disciplines. Conservatives run the political science/history departments, libertarians have economics, and liberals (you guessed it) control the literature domain. This little intellectual microcosm, despite some rather amusing mudslinging between professors, generally maintains harmonic equilibrium.

The problem arises when one group decides to deviate from their area of scholarship into another domain, throwing this delicate balance off kilter. Like when conservatives struggle in laughable futility to redefine the parameters of what is considered a “morallly sound” work of literature and ban everything they possibly can.

Or when liberals try to teach economics, a convoluted farce at best, which results in rather revolting creatures called “hippies”.

These completely econimically inept, ultra-liberal pseudosocialist Democrats now have taken control of Congress. One might say “lesser of two assholes”, but thats hardly anything to celebrate. There are elephant turds that have a greater grasp on core fiscal principles than these morons, the repercussions of their folly threatens to be vast and terrible in scope.

In this pivotal time of social turmoil, where politicans are either a flavour of totallitarian Zionist warmonger or collectivist second-rater, where the entire world is seems to be rapidly plummeting into a state of pure depravity, we need people like you, Milton Friedman.

Even with all the work of you and your contemporaries, these rodents we call our representatives are managing to circumvent everything you and everyone like you stood for.

You don’t stand for some complex religious ideal or philosophical tenet, you stand for the most pure and basic of human virtues, what seperates us from animals. You stand for just one word.

Reason.

And yet time and time again, the idiocracy that is America hascalled for a referendum against reason, hurrahing the toppling of reason, the destruction of reason.

Rest thy bloodied shoulders, Atlas. While many have forgotten, the greatest of us have not. And a day of reckoning is inevitable, this paradigm of stupidity will eventually end. Make your choice, America.

Time is running out.

Yes, I’m alive, been simply swamped with work and other issues in my life lately, but I figured the occasion deserves a rambling, so here it is.

In an event that shouldn’t have shocked anyone, the Democrats have laid siege upon Washington, taking both the House and the Senate.

And, I couldn’t care less, brainless primates replaced by other brainless primates, what a truly momentous occasion. Some might scoff at me, labeling this a wholly precarious assessment. I call it realistic cynicism. The fact of the matter is, the  deadly geo-political clockwork the Bush clan and its orbitting neocon ideologues have engaged isn’t going to stop untill time runs out. And by that time it’ll be beyond the point of our concern, if you understand where I’m  going with this.

And to even entertain the thought that a bunch of quasi-socialist Democrat half-wits can solve the problem would be to surrender to willful ignorance. Republicans didn’t know what the hell they were doing, but neither do these sausages, they obediently supported the war at its conception, then conveniently forgot they supported it, now expect us to believe that they alone have the solution. Give me a break.

The Middle-Eastern puzzle is a rapidly ticking time-bomb, one that cannot be defused by a group of wannabees, charlatans, San Francisco liberal hippies or Texan Christian conservative bigots. This issue transcends partisanship, as far as I’m concerned there isn’t a single competent official in the American political system. Even John McCain, a man I have long tried to have faith in as a true crusader and maverick against Republican stupidity, has displayed his true colors as nothing more than a  spineless appeaser of the administration’s every whim, a true shame.

What we need right now is a true Platonic philosopher hing, someone with real historical perspective and insight on the current situation. We need someone like Dr. Francis Fukuyama or his contemporaries in the Oval Office, hell, I’d rather even have Christopher Hitchens than the pinheads that currently occupy the place. Unfortunately, these people will never run for public office, for the sheer fact that they’re too smart for such a demeaning position.

So quit your rabbling on about the election results, nothing happened, one monkey was kicked and another placed in the cage. The monkey will  rattle the bars and construct an air of importance and grandeur, but in the end its still a monkey.

Even with the long-overdue departure of the likely Alzheimer’s afflicted Rumsfeld, nothing is going to change. How much power did he wield anyway?  Untill we have a real man, our problems aren’t going to go away.

But hang tight, the next few years watching the Democrats try and fail time and time again should be really funny.