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Re: Holy crap! (was Re: The partisian trap in California)
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Tue, 21 Oct 2003 17:55:07 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote:
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There has been a tendency, thanks largely to Dubya’s
inane “with us or against us” mentality, to equate patriotism with blind
faith in the righteous (some might say “God-given”) infallibility of the
Bush administration, which is of course idiocy. The US would be a stronger
nation, both morally and in the eyes of the world, if it had the integrity
to admit its national errors and transgressions. Instead, we have a
lockstep administration stridently clinging to its policies regardless of
truth or evidence.
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I’m not one to even remotely come close to throwing Dubya a life line, but
which president in recent history wanted to develop a consistant foreign
policy? Not even Bubba attempted that task. The Saudis are ‘always good’,
for one example.
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And Israel is always the oppressed party, no matter how many Palestinian
civilians they “accidentally” kill. Again, your point is good.
“Consistent foreign policy” is hard to address simply because there are so many
variables from nation to nation. But I’d suggest that Dubya is unique among our
recent Presidents in his utter disregard for the sensibilities of any other
nation when it comes to furthering his agenda. The UN wasn’t “irrelevant” until
it dared to disagree with Dubya’s crusade, but suddenly it’s relevant again now
that Dubya needs his administrative butt hauled out of the fires of his own
stoking.
Dubya’s other dubious distinction in this regard is his absolute unwillingness
to admit that other interpretations might legitimately differ from his own.
He’s not simply saying “I disagree with that assessment;” he’s declared that
such disagreement is equivalent to helping the terrorists (ie, “not with us, so
you’re against us”). That’s not even a good strategy for the captain of a
gradeschool dodgeball team, let alone the appointed leader of the most powerful
nation on Earth!
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I don’t know--maybe there’s something inherent in the system--that
‘re-election’ desire outweighs the ‘do what’s right’ desire.
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I support term limits for exactly that reason. Additionally, it troubles me to
see Dubya out stumping for Republican legislators in a disturbingly incestuous
mixing of two nominally distinct branches of the government.
Dave!
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