Democratus Ostrichus
The LA Times reports that John Kerry's plan to get international aid and support for Iraq is well, not getting much aid and support from the nations that are supposed to well, give the aid and support.
Kerry in recent appearances and interviews has been intensifying his effort to spotlight what he sees as the Bush administration's mistakes in Iraq ? especially the failure to broaden international involvement ? as a fundamental difference between the two candidates. But Kerry's proposals depend on changing the minds of foreign leaders who do not want to defy their electorates by sending forces into what many consider to be a U.S.-made mess.This is news? Well, to be fair, I suppose it is, at least to a variety of Americans, primarily the Democratus Ostrichus, a form of donkey that can actually bury it's head in the sand.
"I understand why John Kerry is making proposals of this kind, but there is a lack of realism in them," Menzies Campbell, a British lawmaker who is a spokesman on defense issues for the Liberal Democratic Party, said in a typical comment.