I don't do predictions, but...

I have this horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach. In order to try to redeem himself, because even Bush has to know his legacy is shit, here is what is gonna happen and happen very, very badly.

He is going to send more troops into Iraq. Fifteen thousand, 20,000, 30,000? Who knows. It won't matter because we don't have the ability to fight an asymmetrical war. I'm sure we'll learn to in the future, but we don't have that expertise now. Perhaps we'd have a chance if we sent in SWAT teams, but that's just silly.

And here's where my prediction really starts getting scary. Bush will invade Iran. He's been posturing for it for many months and he is going to do it. Any troops committed to Iran will have to be pulled from somewhere else, somewhere else where they are needed or they wouldn't be stationed there now.

That means a couple things. He will ruin the US military. He will decimate its ranks and destroy its power to do anything. The second thing it means is Kim Jong Il will have free reign to do whatever the hell he wants because Bush would have to attack him with the Boy and Girl Scouts. What's next? The Cub Scouts and Brownies?

In the end there might be a silver lining. The US military commanders and strategists are gonna be forced to take stock in just what the US military is or should be. How can they have so many "superior" weapons and still be fucked by some guys with AK47s and RPGs? If you check the pictures out of Iraq, those guys don't even have Hummers. They attack in Toyota pickups, Corollas and an occasional SUV.