"If war can be compared to a chess game, Bush has gotten his queen stuck in a corner while trying to take a pawn."

Michael Miller at Public Domain Progress knowing that I'm chessplayer thought I would find a quote he found at American Samizdat amusing. I did, it reminded me of a chess game between Genrikh Chepukaitis and a computer I recently posted. The computer gets its queen trapped in a way similar to how Bush has conducted his ill fated adventure. Not being flexible, not identifying a changing landscape, and not making necessary adjustments in his plan. Is it too late to recover, hard to say, it was for the computer. But unlike the chess game, that was enjoyable both intellectually and aesthetically, and certainly not earth shattering the situation in Iraq is different. In the chess game no one loses members of their family and no one loses their home and no one suffers the pain that war necessarily entails. The chess game doesn't produce terrorists nor a desire for revenge it is a game after all. I don't know the solution but like what Meyerson in the Washington Post suggested. "The only unequivocally good policy option before the American people is to dump the president who got us into this mess, who had no trouble sending our young people to Iraq but who cannot steel himself to face the Sept. 11 commission alone. "