Opinion (Eugene Robinson): Changing the subject, yet again

Listening to George W. Bush announce his fantasy-based escalation of the war in Iraq, which could only make sense in some parallel universe where pigs fly and fish commute on bicycles, I flashed on something Bush's hero Winston Churchill once said: "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." By that standard, President Bush is no fanatic.

True, he scores off the charts on the part about inflexibility of mind. But the Decider changes the subject all the time. First, the way to fight the "war on terror" was to invade Afghanistan, where the Taliban regime was sheltering Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. Before finishing that job, Bush decided to invade Iraq, which had nothing to do with al-Qaeda or the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. And now, with Iraq mired in bloody chaos, he seems to be changing the subject yet again -- to Iran.

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