Yo T:

I am delighted to have my ETTBS (Estimated Time THe Bombing Starts) miscalculated. Might of fact, I'm not even going to throw another dart at the ETTBS dart board.

But you can bet that Bush is absolutely besides himself. I hear they're having to medicate the boy and give him *quiet time* evry day just to keep him at a low boil the rest of the time. Man, now I'm beginning to understand what his mother has said about him about how he was when he was a kid. Most adults outgrow the hissy fits and temper tantrums but not this spoiled frat boy...

Oh well...

Now, T, speaking of hissy fits and temper tantrums, I thing the US does not put itself in the best position for dialogue. No, when things don't go right forus we grab our guns and go huffin' n puffin' and then wonder why bad things happen. Like what happens to countries like Iraq and Afganistan that one day they are our friends ands the next day we're bombing them? Somewhere along the way we must be failing in our dialogue. Like maybe we're too buzy playing "critical parent" (transactional anaylsis) and not taking enought time playing "adult".

The adult *listens* and thereby keeps the communication open. The critical parent doesn't and the communication breaks down. The US is guilty of this. This has been the failings of one administartion after another in failed foriegn policies. Until the US can become a better listener, it will reap what it sows.

As I have pointed out many times, the US never gave the Saudi Proposal a chance. You think they did but, in reality, they very much didn't want any part of a plan that: 1. Was not in the interests of the military/industrialist complex and 2.was not *their idea*. If they had embraced the framework, we wouldn't be looking a using the ultimate failed foriegn policy today: War!

Bobert