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Posted on 03/24/2006 7:51:04 AM PST by edpc
THE BUSH administration's newly unveiled National Security Strategy might well be subtitled "The Irony of Iran." Three years after the invasion of Iraq and the invention of the phrase "axis of evil," the administration now highlights the threat posed by Iran — whose radical government has been vastly strengthened by the invasion of Iraq. This is more tragedy than strategy, and it reflects the Manichean approach this administration has taken to the world.
It is sometimes convenient, for purposes of rhetorical effect, for national leaders to talk of a globe neatly divided into good and bad. It is quite another, however, to base the policies of the world's most powerful nation upon that fiction. The administration's penchant for painting its perceived adversaries with the same sweeping brush has led to a series of unintended consequences.
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Good versus evil is a better strategy than the Democrat's alternative: evil for evil.
Horse's Ass Alert.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1602315/posts
Winston Churchill: "You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory. Victory at all costs. Victory in spite of all terrors. Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival."
Ronald Reagan: "I know you think I don't have a strategy for dealing with communism, but I do: We win. They lose."
These are the sorts of strategy that work.
Like ending tyranny???
Only a intellect (for lack of a better term) stunted by decades of cowardice and moral relativism could have authored such a pathetic screed.
Uh, Maddy, I need my room cleaned...
Hey, com'on, Ms. Albright just wrote a book on broaches. She knows what she's talking about. You doubt that? Just ask Bubba. He'll tell you.
And how many years have we been stuck in Half-bright and Clinton's Kosovo quagmire?
This clueless little bag lady hasn't seen the ball since the kickoff. That she was an improvement over Warren "Mr. Hostages" Christopher ain't sayin' much.
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She shows again that her looks exceed her grasp of reality and politics. Is she Neville Chamberlain reincarnated?
Yes, Maddy, real meaning is only found within the shades of gray that allows twits like you to endure in your search for relevance. Meanwhile, the rest of the world goes on and those who would wish and do evil upon us have stated it plainly to any that have ears and the brain power to understand.
Back to the depths of anonymity -- may we never be graced with your kind in a position of power again.
From a Feb 2000 posting on FR. It still makes me laugh, even after 6 years........
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was mistaken for a maid during last year’s peace negotiations for Kosovo in Rambouillet, France. According to a report in the "New York Daily News," the Secretary of State at first wasn’t recognized by the Albanian delegation when she walked into their room.
“One member of the delegation, who didn’t realize who she was, and probably thinking she was some cleaning lady because it was after midnight, simply said to her, ‘Give us five minutes and please go away,’” recalled Albanian diplomat Dugagjin Gorani in War on Europe, a British TV program. Instead, Albright exploded in rage, swearing at the group, according to the reports.
“Mrs. Albright started using explicit language which the translators never could translate into Albanian,” says Veton Surroi, another member of the delegation.
Which, of course, this Administration does not despite the calls from some that the policy be "purist." This woman is just another reminder why this bunch must now be allowed back in power to run our international relations.
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