While not a perfect fit, the parallels between President Bush's half-baked idea of setting up refugee camps on "flat" Iraqi territory -- to be defended by U.S. and allied armed forces and eventually turned over to someone else to manage (if someonelike the U.N. steps forward to take on the task) - is eerily reminiscent of the early, ill-defined American commitment to the people of South Vietnam.
He stood there -- again, he did not sound likesomeone standing before the U.S. Supreme Court to stand up for something that is a historic piece of law.
The concept goes like this: Planting crops for biofuels in the U.S. or Europe may cause someone in Brazil or Indonesia to put more earth under the plow.