NO GOOD OPTIONS

Foreign Policy experts scurrying to podiums/blogs everywhere warn there are no good options left in Iraq except obviously the one most often employed in the face of harsh and unsettling truths-- That one being denial most often followed by a smear against the unbiased one's biased foes-- Cut and Runners versus the Stay and Payers in shouting matches all too often ruthlessly obscene and boringly replete with pitiful accusatory venom both elements cowed in anonymity-- Logically though if all the good options are gone there should still be some bad and some terrible options hanging around more than likely wearing warning signs of a sufficiently dangerous perhaps destructive nature-- Does that mean its better to have some choice of negative options or be compelled to choose from no options at all??-- Policy wonkers don't really have to answer or even entertain that question since they have already opted for Denial-- Unfortunately such an enticing option often leads to a correlative sub-category called paralysis (usually of the will) to which stressed-out destinies of mere mortals and their dreams of empire first yield in an almost flimsily narcotic pretense allured with the false hope some miraculous intercession will save the day-- There follows blind dissolute relief-- The negative options all the while vie among each other to fulfill History/Fate's predicate that penetrates oblivion's standstill with a quite disabusing shock and awesome segue into sheer panic-- Sooner or maybe even less than soon Mr. Bush having failed his Captain Ahab's task to 'Fish or cut bait' will watch the ship of state flounder--