BOUNDAPALOOZA

It was bound to happen. The Senate, mostly Democrats with a few courageous Republicans, are debating a non-binding resolution to stop the troop surge in Iraq. With un-bounding optimism, these senators are bounding forward with their non-binding resolution.

Not to be out-bound, some Republicans are bound to oppose this non-binding resolution with a filibuster. This is bound to inflame the Democrats to bound even further in their efforts to pass their non-binding resolution.

What we really need is a binding resolution to stop the troop surge and the war itself. That’s because the President is bound to ignore the non-binding resolution.

Back at the start of the war, the Bush administration may have thought it was bound for glory. More likely, it is bound for the scrapheap of history.

Originally published in Daily Herald, February 8, 2007
Also published in Chicago Sun-Times, February 9, 2007