Magic Elections

It's been a while. Busy with Holidays and playing too much Halo2 online.




Immediately following an essay by a member of the faculty of Hoover Institution about how drug regulation/approval should be more of a market approach than a more cautious FDA…this on that bastion of Liberal media, NPR. Imagine my surprise that NPR would give 5 minutes of uninterrupted comment without rebuttal to such a Conservative voice, can you see the Conservative Media Cabal providing some lefty the same opportunity? Methinks not. But I digress,

So, after this essay, I heard General Abazaid say that the elections on Jan 30 will be the death of the insurgency. Can I ask, does anyone REALLY think that on Feb. 1, these guys will lay down their arms and go home and live peaceably? It’s not even realistic. After the election, the violence will go on, especially that directed at police and the newly elected officials. To claim this magic power of elections seems quite naive. Especially, when you see that the PM is saying it’s not safe enough to have elections in the first place.