Whaddaya Mean, There is SO Something Behind that Curtain?
March 19, 2006
11:19 a.m., MT

I suspect that Amerikans used to getting their so-called information neatly predigested by the likes of FOX News and other mainstream sources won't know what to make of these two reports.

First, 'Impeach Bush' chorus grows from the UK's Times Online. Or maybe they will — I see upon doing a Google News search on the phrase impeach Bush that there's a lot of chatter about it here, too, including an interesting editorial in today's Philadelphia Inquirer, titled It's not as outlandish as it may seem. The primary problem I see with this approach is that if Bushnev were to be successfully ousted from office, that'd leave us with Cheney, whose approval ratings (as reported in the Times article) are an abysmal 18% — and with good reason: he's at least as scary as Bushnev.

Second, and much more entertaining, is an editorial from the International Herald Tribune: If Bush ruled the world. An extended quote from its beginning:

Intellectual poverty is the most striking quality of the Bush administration's new National Security Strategy statement, issued on Thursday. Its overall incoherence, its clichés and stereotyped phraseology give the impression that Stephen Hadley, the national security adviser, and his fellow authors assembled it from the boilerplate of bureaucratic discourse with contempt for the Congress to whom it is primarily addressed.

It reveals the administration's foreign policy as a lumpy stew of discredited neoconservative ideas with some neo-Kissingerian geopolitics now mixed in.

The statement's only visible purpose is to address a further threat to Iran, as its predecessor, in 2002, threatened Iraq. The only actual "strategy" that can be deduced from it is that the Bush administration wishes to rule the world. The document is nonsensical in content, insulting to other nations and unachievable in declared intention.

The whole thing's worth reading, even though IHT's annoying formatting breaks it into three pages.

Okay, I think I just used up my quota of electoral-politics-related posting for the week, and in just a couple of hours! It's a bright sunny day, and we've not had breakfast yet — I think I hear my waffle iron calling. And my huge bucket of lingonberry preserves, too ... which reminds me, I promised Nick I'd post a recipe for him. Perhaps today; if not, tomorrow, for sure (barring computer disasters or connectivity foulups).

Sunni

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