Three Cheers for the Bush Doctrine

Time Magazine ^ | May 27, 2005 | CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER

[Paradox]

No comments? Any reason for this old article? I certainly agree with what it says..

[voletti]

Problem is the islamists are gaining power thru the ballot now. ike in the aborted algerian polls "one man, one vote, one time" was the result and the military stepped in just as the islamists were cruising to a landslide.

[southernerwithanattitude]

I wish Jon Stewart would "implode". I don't see how anyone thinks he is funny {you know the ha ha funny kind of funny}.

[Austin Willard Wright]

Exactly.

[DTogo]

Three cheers for CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER !!

[Lucky Dog]

"Democracy is two wolves and sheep voting on what's for dinner."

"A Constitutional Republic: Voting on dinner is expressly forbidden, and the sheep are armed."

[babyface00]

I find I have some pity for the Palestians. When your sense of history is filtered through propoganda as is what little news of the world you can obtain, I don't believe you can be expected to make good decisions at the ballot box. Beyond that, their choices were only a little bit better than the "elections" in the former USSR or Cuba.

At least the Palestians have a good excuse, unlike our Democrats who have access to the information, but refuse to see it.

[Austin Willard Wright]

Why? Because of his failed prediction on the Egyptian elections (Islamic Brotherhood) and Gaza (Hamas)?

[dirtboy]

I really don't see how this indicts the Bush Doctrine.

You had one corrupt Palestinian faction, Fatah, that pretended it wasn't a terrorist organization when it was, and you have Hamas, who doesn't bother pretending.

And all those who used to blow kisses at Arafat now must face up to the true nature of the Palestinians, who just voted Hamas into power - a majority of them will never accept Israel and is willing to condone terrorism. Which actually simplifies dealing with them, because there are no more illusions for liberals and Euro-weenies to hide behind.

In other words, democracy has made it impossible to prended the Palestinians are something other than what they are.

[Austin Willard Wright]

We've heard that one before....I think someone said it in early 1933.

[taxcontrol]

Islamists coming to power is NOT a bad thing. Gather your enemy in one place and kill them. You either kill them by bullets and bombs, or you kill them in the market place of ideas.

Bullets and Bombs if they get uppity and try to use that countries military to attack you. Or by ideas because someone so focused on the destruction of Israel will not have the time or energy to build their own people. Over time, they will show the world and their "supporters" that they do not have the solution and their base will disappear.

[dirtboy]

We've heard that one before....I think someone said it in early 1933.

Uh, not quite. I do believe the opposite happened. Europe continued to pretend that Hitler was something that he was not.

Hamas does not allow any such illusions.

[rhombus]

Time Magazine???

[cubreporter]

me neither. He sits there like a bump on a log. There is no humor. Just sarcasm and stupid things.

[ziggygrey]

I don't look at the the election of Hamas as anything but a victory for terrorists. Likewise the "elections" in Iran. If people are "electing" Islamofascists, the area is certainly transformed, but in what direction?

[nightdriver]

"Daniel Schorr, another critic of the Bush foreign policy..."

Daniel Schorr? The news commentator who seldom spoke the truth?

The contemporary of Eric Severride, Robert Trout and Lowell Thomas?

Is he still alive?

[oneofmany]

I agree. The Palestinians just put the crosshairs on their people as a whole. No more surgical strikes on a radical fringe.