Just when I think the neocon squawkboxes can’t get any more ridiculous, they find a way to one-up me. Bill Kristol, Weekly Standard editor and general idiot, has come up with possibly the dumbest suggestion I’ve ever heard.

KRISTOL: They’re playing — they’re leap-frogging each other in the degrees of irresponsibility they’re willing to advocate. And I really think people are being too sort of complacent and forgiving almost of the Democrats. ‘Oh, it’s politics, of course. One of them has a non-binding resolution. The other has a cap.’ It’s all totally irresponsible. It’s just unbelievable. The president is sending over a new commander, he’s sending over troops, and the Democratic Congress, in a pseudo-binding way or non-binding way, is saying, ‘It won’t work. Forget it. You troops, you’re going over there in a pointless mission. Iraqis who might side with us, forget it, we’re going to pull the plug.’ It’s so irresponsible that they can’t be quiet for six or nine months and say the president has made a decision, we’re not going to change that decision, we’re not going to cut off funds and insist on the troops coming back, so let’s give it a chance to work. You really wonder, do they want it to work or not? I really wonder that. I hate to say this about the Democrats. They’re people I know personally and I respect some of them. Do they want it to succeed or not?

Billy Boy seems to view this as though it were a game of Risk. Just be quiet for a while, see if it works, and if it doesn’t then we’ll worry about it.

Of course, that argument doesn’t seem to count when it comes to any suggestions OTHER than “continue to escalate”. You know, they aren’t willing to give Maliki, Casey, or the ISG Report’s ideas a shot for six to nine months. No, Congress should sit down and be quiet whenever Bush does whatever he does and then at some time to be determined (by Kristol, I guess), THEN they can start with their opinions. Until another idea pops up.

Folks, “adding troops” isn’t new. Secondly, we’re rearing on four years in Iraq, five years in the “war on terror” and since 9/11. The Iraq Fiasco has had second chance after second chance. There have been ideas and proposals for years on how to “fix” it, and it hasn’t been fixed. Asking the Democrats to just sit by and wait until it screws up again and then undoubtedly telling them to shut up once more when the next idea comes out is a recipe for disaster.

I really do wonder if Kristol would tell the Republicans to be quiet and let it ride for a while if Bush suddenly relented and ordered 30,000 troops OUT of Iraq.