Plan Bush - ditto, ditto, ditto

Well, I caught the Decider's speech on the re-run tonight. He did look at bit humbled, even admitting - gasp! - that mistakes have been made in Iraq. But under it all, the core remains - stubbornness clearly continues to rule. So the man is going to send 20,000 more troops to join the present 132,000 US troops there. That obviously makes 152,000. Back in June, 2004, he had 140,000 US troops there and the situation just got worse. So, in effect, the Decider-in-Chief thinks he will make a real difference now in this bloody Sunni-Shia civil war by adding 12,000 more troops than there were in June '04. Almost nobody, including a growing number of Republican senators, thinks this is going to work. Many analysts believe that it will make things worse, providing more targets to the insurgents. (By the way, to put the 20,000-troop surge into perspective, one commentator points out that New York city has 37,000 police officers.)

Bush also rattled his sword at Iran and Syria, just at the time when every attempt at dialogue is urgent. Just how much damage can one Decider do in a day?