Saturday, March 19, 2005
Foreign Policy Blindness
Not that this should come as a surprise to anyone, but the Bush administration is a complete waste of space when it comes to foreign policy. Who decided it was a good idea to lie to our allies in order to get them to do what we want them to do? Why did we think we wouldn't get caught?
North Korea is a BAD REGIME. It's not like you have to make things up to convince people of that fact. Shipping nuclear materials to Pakistan instead of Libya might not have raised as many hackles in Europe, but Kim Jong Il's track record of starving his own people, kidnapping foreigners, nuclear blackmail, running a drug smuggling ring, and threatening to rain fire down on South Korea and Japan to "preserve the North Korean sytem" should certainly be enough to convince them that he's not first on the invitation list to the Christmas party.
Ever heard of the little boy who cried Wolf? If we keep getting caught for making up intelligence information, how are we to expect people to believe us when we have real information? Perhaps Bush is approaching this, like the budget deficit, as a "it's not my problem" kind of problem, because somebody else will clean it up after he's gone.
If Bush hopes to set American on a Republican track for the next 50 years (as Karl Rove claims to want), that BETTER not be his approach. People sometimes swear off drink after waking up with a particularly bad hangover. What kind of hangover does the Bush administration want to leave the American people?
Not that this should come as a surprise to anyone, but the Bush administration is a complete waste of space when it comes to foreign policy. Who decided it was a good idea to lie to our allies in order to get them to do what we want them to do? Why did we think we wouldn't get caught?
North Korea is a BAD REGIME. It's not like you have to make things up to convince people of that fact. Shipping nuclear materials to Pakistan instead of Libya might not have raised as many hackles in Europe, but Kim Jong Il's track record of starving his own people, kidnapping foreigners, nuclear blackmail, running a drug smuggling ring, and threatening to rain fire down on South Korea and Japan to "preserve the North Korean sytem" should certainly be enough to convince them that he's not first on the invitation list to the Christmas party.
Ever heard of the little boy who cried Wolf? If we keep getting caught for making up intelligence information, how are we to expect people to believe us when we have real information? Perhaps Bush is approaching this, like the budget deficit, as a "it's not my problem" kind of problem, because somebody else will clean it up after he's gone.
If Bush hopes to set American on a Republican track for the next 50 years (as Karl Rove claims to want), that BETTER not be his approach. People sometimes swear off drink after waking up with a particularly bad hangover. What kind of hangover does the Bush administration want to leave the American people?
