MC Rove Wriggles Off the Hook

Karl Rove quits. Too little, too late - it's a classic cut and run. I am reminded of The Great Gatsby, where we learn about the failings of Tom and Daisy: They were careless people...they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back to their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. This seems to me to be a perfect analysis of Rove. Rove helped start a war, and steadfastly held the party line, blasting political adversaries for "cutting and running". Now, Rove walks away and says he needs to spend more time with his family? Nice for the Roves, not so much for the hundreds of thousands of American soldiers and the masses of Iraqi people that have to live with the consequences of Rove's machinations. There is something very strange about the people who have assembled themselves around the President over the past few years. Many of them seem to have an outsized sense of their own world-historical importance, and many of them are convinced that they have a superior understanding of the lessons of history, but their grasp of history never seems to escape the generic, the vague and the facile.