Catchall Post

Steve Clemmons at the Washington Note has lengthy excerpts from the upcoming Scowcroft piece in the New Yorker. This is the harshest dissent yet of the Bush admin's neocon foreign policy from a major republican player.

And Bill Frist's political ambitions are officially dead as the WaPo reports that he lied about the "blind trust" management of his massive HCA holdings. The insider trading scandal may even have him seeing jail time.

And the Bush admin, on the back of the Mehlis report, are pushing for a UN Security Council Resolution this week compelling Syrian cooperation in a further investigation. Interestingly, the French are the main US support in this.(Is the boycott still on, Mr. Bill O'Rielly?) The French submission contains this open ended threat.

"If it (Syria) does not cooperate, Mr (Detlev) Mehlis will tell the Security Council and, in that case, there will be consequences," Douste-Blazy said.

After living through the Iraq war build up, I would think that that sort of open ended threat won't pass. Probably sanctions.