Saturday, 10 April 2004

Under the sea: I'm off for a well-deserved holiday to the Great Barrier Reef, where last week's scuba-diving lessons will be put to good use. (I hope — my lady-love is coming down with a cold, and you can't scuba dive if your ears are blocked.) I'll be gone for a week, so it looks like I'll miss the collapse of the Iraqi Governing Council and the first few hints that Condi Rice committed perjury yesterday. (It really looks like it's going to be that kind of week.)

Next week I'll try to come up with a strategy to get from where we are now to a successful outcome in Iraq… but I'm afraid it's too late to correct the most serious blunder — the disbanding of the Iraqi army — and Dubya simply doesn't have any favors left to call in. At this stage we need 500,000 troops on the ground to restore order, and Bush has no way to get them.

- Posted by Scott Forbes at 1:34 pm. comments.