the employee discount isn't going to be enough on this one, george

tomorrow george w. bush is going to go on television to defend his war. (i think it's going to be tough for him to do. i'm sure wednesday, well i think we all know what the fox news guys will say. it's amazing how they all stay on message.)
anyway, regardless of whether you like or dislike the war, you'd have to admit it's not looking good and the word that that will be coming up more and more is vietnam.
i think the bush administration's problem is that they really kind of sold the war under false pretenses.
truth is, they really wanted to do this and they sort of allowed that to guide their interpretation of the facts. they told americans and the world he had weapons of mass destruction, that we would be greeted as liberators, that it would be easy and it would be over relatively quickly. false, false, false and....false.
despite my dislike of george dubya and the fact that i was against the war, we really can't leave now. but the army isn't getting anyone to join (would you?) and this presents a major logistical problem, what are we going to do? i don't think bringing back the draft is really an option, at least not at this point. no politician is going to touch that one.
so what is the answer?
the only answer i see is to eat some crow and make some major concessions to 'old europe' or maybe russia or china and try to get them involved on the ground - or at least monetarily at first. (by concessions, i mean real say in how things are done.) i'm not exactly sure how well that will work but i just don't see how we're leaving there in the next year or two, i would think more like ten -at least. but i also don't see how we can continue fighting a war spending however-many-billions a month against an enemy that we can't even totally identify and with no one joining our army. remember, bin-laden & co. defeated the soviet union - not exactly the los angeles clippers of the cold-war world.
i mean, i suppose the elections could go well, they could elect a government and build an army and things will be all good but that seems like a little bit of a rosy prediction, doesn't it?