Posted on 02/25/2006 8:56:33 PM PST by Calugareni
BUSH'S AND RICE'S ALTERNATIVE REALITY BREAKING DOWN
By Lawrence Auster
I’ll start by quoting Barry Schweid’s article for the AP in which he summarizes Secretary Rice’s recent woes:
WASHINGTON (AP)—It was probably Condoleezza Rice’s unhappiest week as secretary of state, one so disappointing that it raises questions about the Bush administration’s ability to shape Middle East events in the near term. During her three days in the region, Egyptian and Saudi Arabian leaders—with Rice standing awkwardly at their side before the news media—refused to support the U.S. financial boycott of the militant group Hamas as it takes control of the Palestinian parliament.
In Iraq, sectarian violence threatened to turn into a civil war, setting back efforts by President Bush and Rice to construct a democratic government that would shine as an example for the entire area.
And a deal with the United Arab Emirates, one of America’s few close Arab friends, to operate some terminals at six major U.S. ports unexpectedly ignited bipartisan anger in Congress and forced at least a delay of the transaction.
Each instance not only illustrated the chasm between the United States and the Arab world but seemed to widen it.
As we look at Rice’ numerous problem areas,—the Hamas election; the refusal of Arab governments to join America’s financial boycott of Hamas; sectarian violence in Iraq; and the uproar in the U.S. over the UAE ports deal—is there a common element running through them? Yes, there is. It is the crashing into reality of the Bush/neoconservative/liberal dogma which says that all people are like us and that differences don’t matter.
Thus: For us, democracy is compatible with civilized norms of conduct, therefore it should also be so for the Palestinians. But it’s not.
Thus: We believe that an organization devoted to waging terror war to destroy a sovereign nation is a bad thing that should be shunned, therefore Arab potentates should believe it too. But they don’t.
Thus: In America we don’t need a dictator to keep different religious denominations from killing each other and blowing up each other’s churches, therefore the Iraqis shouldn’t need one either. But they do.
And thus: “We”—meaning Bush and Rice and their fellow globalist elites—take it as a matter of course that Arabs are just as safe a bet for handling U.S. ports as any other national group, and therefore all Americans should feel the same. But they don’t.
With that last example, the pattern I thought I had found changes in an interesting way. It’s not that non-Americans turn out to be different from Americans, it’s that most Americans, and most of the human race, are different from Bush and Rice and the elites that support them. When it comes to the false, extreme, and destructive idea that humanity consists of a mass of interchangeable units sharing the same desires for freedom and democracy, there is only one group in the world that truly believes it—our rulers. So rigid is their faith in this false vision of humanity that even when it comes crashing down around them, as recounted in the above article, they can’t see it. Like ideological zombies, they keep smugly repeating the same formulae.
This guy takes simplistic thinking to new levels.
If he thinks all Arabs are alike...oh, why bother, I'm too tired of dealing with these morons for a whole week now. Thank god no one takes people like this seriously.
Oh, yeah, this is certainly Breaking News.
No kidding. Another racist leftist. But you can't use the 'R' word because they own it.
*ping*
Bringing OBL to justice morphed into eliminating WMD in IRAQ which morphed into eliminating Saddam which now has morphed into giving democracy to the Iraqi people. What will it morph into next?
It's called train of thought.
But then you have to think to have it.
PING!
I agree that it was a bad week for Condi on her trip to the Middle East. She alway seems so aloof when meeting with those Arab guys; there seems to be tension in the air.
But given the way Arabs view women, it's no surprise that her meetings with them do not always go so well.
Perhaps she is not the best person for the job in these troubled times. Was it just out of loyalty that she even accepted the position? Maybe it's time to do some juggling of cabinet positions.
There's a five cent fee for using the "R" word, payable to the DNC.
When you get a chance, write a check and send it in. ;-)
You have to take the long view, and I find it amazing that so many people are so short sighted about this long hard road.
Answer the charge. Stop calling folks that disagree with what you think or say as racist.
The author may have a point about think tank bubble group think influencing policy.
Who are you, Johnnie Cochran? I'll say whatever I want to whoever I want, you don't like it, whoever you are, tough. Take your righteous indignation over to Pat Buchanan's website, I hear they're hiring moderators, or "SS" as they probably call them over there.
All worthy goals, and I don't recall the original senate resolution putting any restrictions on the number of good things that could result in the war on terror.
Be careful whom you label as racist. The author of this may or may not have had a clue as to policy and practices, but has perceived this as policy.
But then the Bush bootlickers are quick to assign "Racist" and "Vigilante" labels to anyone who dares question policy, without any rationale for why the policy exists in the first place. Defending policy should not include labelling those who disagree as "racists", "vigilante's", "pitchforkers" "buchananites" or otherwise. If the policy is decent, you dont have to go into ad hominem attacks to defend it. You can defend it with rational arguments.
My lips are not glued to an elephant's hiney.
Our dear, close, Muslim friends. :-(
And people wonder why the Port deal gives some of us sleepless nights?
WW3.
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