Posted on 11/03/2004 11:30:20 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Don't boss us around or seek to turn others against us for your own state's gain, France, and we can "leave you alone".
We'd rather you tend to yourself, anyway.
Memo to the World: You are either with us, or you are with the terrorists. Choose wisely.
Personal memo to the Christian Science Monitor: Shut the F*ck up.
You see, that kind of arrogant statemetn, while true just ruffles feathers.
The headline should have read: World to Bush: you catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
This is a about diplomacy people. The administration can still do what it wants, it just has to be diplomatic about it.
Relationships are the same whether they are between people or countries. The US is not the CEO of a company. It is just the biggest and richest of a group of friends. We can lead, but we can't expect our friends to listen to us if we don't listen to them like we are friends.
Sure there is a danger out there and that needs to be recognized. But it is a danger that requires cooperation to overcome.
The Bush administration has never given enough time and energy to diplomacy. This si one of the reasons why the eletion was even as close as it was. Let's not forget that Bush should have won 60% of the vote. He is doing the right things, but he sure is not saying it. I took heart in his speech yesterday and hope he backs it up with the same policies combined with more patient and sensitive rhetoric.
To all you with us or against us hotheads out there: The choice is never between others listening to us or not. It is between getting what we want alone or getting what we want with support. The former is fast and reckless. The latter requires patience and skill. The penalities of the former are as great as the rewards of the latter.
Yep. And the CSM is a snotty rag that's available for free in our universities, which propaganda and target grows more active Dems like fungus.
probably forged by dan rather.
HEY FRANCE! eat my shorts
it's oxy-moron time again.
Bush Memo to Globals: drop and give me 20.
Bush memo to Global Ninnies: Got Carriers?!
She sure is a babe!
However:
a) America has spent more blood and treasure than any other country on the planet to ensure the safety and security of our friends and neighbors.
b) America is the world's only (current) superpower. FACT - sorry if you don't approve.
c) Diplomacy doesn't work when your "allies" have been bribed by the enemy. Friends like that we need like a heart attack. We are the world's biggest contributor (by far) to the UN. What has that magnanimous gesture every bought for us?
d) Diplomacy moves too slowly (usually) in the face of modern threats. If we cannot count on our "allies" when the chips are down, why bother having them in the first place?
e) Call it arrogance if you like, but America can go it alone if we have to. Most of the other countries of the world would quickly cave into internal and external threats, and would fold up were it not for the continuing support of the USA. f) "Patient" and "sensitive" rhetoric has never bought us a gram of security - hard nosed belligerence (and the known willingness to back it up) HAS scared many threats into submission.
In a post-911 world, we cannot take the time to run around being "diplomatic" in the face of clear, present, and catestrophic threats. In the final analysis, it comes down to what I posted the first time - choose wisely.
I doubt that there is any European leader who is as warm and diplomatic as President Bush.
Putin leads praise for U.S. choice
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1269182/posts
I beg to differ. It's just that the msm wasn't reporting Bush's diplomacy. The msm took it upon themselves to characterize his diplomacy. The American people have voted, showing their confidence in Bush's policies. The margins would have been even greater if the msm hadn't lied to the American people and spun for the Left.
Translation: do whatever we tell you, spend your money and shed your blood fixing our problems and always remain properly servile and respectful.
Proper response: nuke Paris and repeat elsewhere as necessary.
Billshut! Bush has given time to diplomacy, it's the French and Germans who were awash with "Oil For Food" money that would not listen. These leaders were holding out hoping that Bush would lose this election. Well guess what? They are going to have to deal with him for four more years. We went through the same thing with Reagan. When Reagan won re-election, suddenly all of his detractors overseas, especially in the Kremlin, began to take him much more seriously, and were much kinder. I suspect the same will happen with President Bush as well.
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