Richard Lugar - coward

The news outlets have turned the spotlight on Richard Lugar lately. The Republican senator from Indiana has finally seen the light and realized what a bumbling mistake it was to allow a village idiot to try to run a war.
Senator Lugar's speech and action have been called courageous by some.
The Gadfly has another word for it - cowardly.
If it is in any way courageous to stand up against an obstinate commander-in-chief who has drawn our country into a lost cause war that has emboldened terrorists in the middle east and throughout the world, this begs a further question. Where was Lugar's speech hiding the last 4 years?!
Senator Lugar is nothing but a coward, finally seeing the light after enabling the worst president in US history.
Senator Lugar, you are too late. You are 3,500 US military casualties and tens of thousands of injured and traumatized soldiers too late.
You are $500 billion dollars too late. You are 4 years too late with your rhetoric.
If you had stood in the moment of decision in the vote to authorize the war in Iraq in 2001 and given a speech critical of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, George Tenent, Colin Powell and all the other liars who drug our country into an unnecessary war, then you would have been courageous.
Your speech at this point is like a death row inmate finding Jesus - too little, too late.
Too bad our country didn't have the right leadership when it counted. Now, we're just picking up the bodies of the train wreck that is US foreign policy under GW Bush.

Kudos to Rushdie

It looks like Deja vu all over again. The intolerant Muslims are screaming bloody apostasy while Salman Rushdie is honored, this time by knighthood by the Queen for his accomplishments as a writer.
Too bad the world didn't take notice in 1988-1989 when we saw the intolerant face of radical Islam in the worldwide reaction by Muslims against The Satanic Verses.
In the Gadfly's view, this was a prelude to the 9/11 attacks. We could have seen the writing on the wall - that Islam is an intolerant faith, incompatible with Western values of freedom, and that Islam is filled with violence. An average Muslim can easily be tipped over to violence with a parody or insult to the faith. Further, Islam can be a protective cover for the heinous machinations of terrorist groups like Al Qaeda.
Turning back to Rushdie, the Gadfly would like to send his sincere congratulations for the recent knighthood. In fact, the Gadfly believes that Rushdie is truly deserving of the Nobel prize in literature for his accomplishments. In reality, I doubt such an honor would ever be bestowed on Rushdie. The Nobel committee would probably be too scared of the backlash from the Muslim world for giving such a deserved honor.