Maureen Dowd, whose writing I generally despise, has partially redeemed herself in my eyes today with the best one sentence description of Bush's foreign policy that I have seen yet: "Bush officials believe that making the world more scared of us is the best way to make us safer and less scared."
I think her description is right on, but I don't buy the reasoning -- in fact I believe that the opposite is true. If people who disagree with American policies think that America doesn't listen to anybody and willing to use overwhelming military force at its sole discretion, what kind of tactics are they likely to use to oppose American policies? Terrorism. The historical record on stamping out terrorism solely by the use of force, without any attempt to satisfy the complaints harnessed by the terrorists, is terrible. Just ask anyone from Ireland or Israel.
Being the biggest bully doesn't mean you that you won't get hurt, it just means that you won't get punched in the face. It provides no guarantees for your back or your genitalia.
Posted by Geodog at March 9, 2003 01:41 AM | TrackBackMy apologies, but my web hoster has turned off commenting, due to a flood of obscene spam bringing the server to its knees. I hope to have this weblog transitioned over to Wordpress in the near future, so that I can have commenting up and working again. Until then, please feel free to send me your comments via my email contact form.. Please ignore everything below this comment.
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Posted by: dark rougue on March 11, 2003 11:04 AMTroll,
I don't mind critical comments, but I will delete obscenities and racial, homophobic and other ad hominem attacks.
I am surprised to see that kind of comment coming from downtown Montreal (according to Sam Spade).
I guess there are trolls everywhere.