Dear George,
When it comes to framing an issue, you and yours are master craftsmen. In spite of six year of incompetence and illegality, your ability to frame has kept the Democrats reeling defensively. A more skillful party would have seen through you machinations years ago, and you would now be in retirement in Crawford clearing brush instead of scheming to clear Iran.
You understand what the Democrats fail to understand: the prime matrix for framing is an if/then construction in which both the “if” and the “then” represent the extreme ends of a wide spectrum of options from which the middle has been eviscerated. Bipolarity is the weapon of choice for scam artists, scoundrels and framemeisters.
Your finest work is the debate over our withdrawal from Iraq. If we withdraw, you tell us, then Iraq will sink into total chaos. It’s amazing that no major Democrat has pointed out the obvious: the country is already in chaos, and our presence is an irritant adding to it. This only confirms what I have suspected all along: there no longer a Republican/Democrat split. There are only hi Republicans and lo Republicans.
Nor has any Democrat attempted to restore the middle of the options spectrum. Instead, everyone assumes that withdrawal involves our stripping Iraq of American and British troops, leaving a vacuum to be filed by blood and violence.
I’m telling you, if brains were cotton, the Democrats wouldn’t have enough to Kotex a gnat. It is amazing that nobody has suggested a third way: phase out our troops as we phase in a multinational force acceptable to all of the conflicting parties in Iraq. Luckily, we live in an age when common sense is held in low repute for its lack of ideological purity. Of course, when the main thrust of our policy is accessing Iraq’s oil, a sane strategy for withdrawal is folly.
George, you have led us into the wilderness where wisdom is madness and madness is wisdom. God, it stimulates!
Your admirer,
Belacqua Jones
5:56:40 AM 
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