The bleep going on in the Middle East
It didn't offend me that President Bush used a word that 99.9% of the world's population uses on a daily basis. It didn't offend me that he used probably the most accurate word to decribe what's going on in the Middle East, not only in the past week, but pretty much since the beginning of time.
No, what offended me, was that while British Prime Minister Tony Blair seemed serious and concerned about this latest crisis, Bush was sitting there stuffing his face, acting like there wasn't a care in the world.
I realize that none of that conversation was supposed to be caught on tape, but surely they knew that a camera was on.
Maybe there isn't a whole lot we can do about what's been going between Hezbollah and Israel. Maybe its better off we stay out of it. TIME Magazine did a whole thing about how Bush's "Cowboy Diplomacy" has failed. In alot of ways, it probably has. I'm still not willing to concede it all yet. History will be the ultimate judge.
But I got a bad feeling watching that conversation the other day, because I got the feeling that Bush didn't much care (or should I say give a sh-t.) That's pretty dangerous. Its from groups like Hezbollah and Hamas that al-Qaeda gets its people. If we don't come up with a solution and find a way to defeat these groups, then we may well have another 9/11.
And if THAT happens, Bush loses the last defense that he has of his foreign policy. And we won't have to wait on history to determine if his presidency was a failure.
No, what offended me, was that while British Prime Minister Tony Blair seemed serious and concerned about this latest crisis, Bush was sitting there stuffing his face, acting like there wasn't a care in the world.
I realize that none of that conversation was supposed to be caught on tape, but surely they knew that a camera was on.
Maybe there isn't a whole lot we can do about what's been going between Hezbollah and Israel. Maybe its better off we stay out of it. TIME Magazine did a whole thing about how Bush's "Cowboy Diplomacy" has failed. In alot of ways, it probably has. I'm still not willing to concede it all yet. History will be the ultimate judge.
But I got a bad feeling watching that conversation the other day, because I got the feeling that Bush didn't much care (or should I say give a sh-t.) That's pretty dangerous. Its from groups like Hezbollah and Hamas that al-Qaeda gets its people. If we don't come up with a solution and find a way to defeat these groups, then we may well have another 9/11.
And if THAT happens, Bush loses the last defense that he has of his foreign policy. And we won't have to wait on history to determine if his presidency was a failure.
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