Bush Didn't Squander The World's Sympathy. He Spent It.

National Journal ^ | 5/9/03 | Jonathan Rauch

[TEXOKIE]

You are welcome, Ms Kathy! Glad you liked it as well as I did!

[djreece]

Bumping a keeper

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Bush . . . has the great virtue . . . of knowing a dead policy when he sees one. So he gathered up . . . his political capital, spent the whole bundle on dynamite, and blew the old policy to bits . . . leav[ing] little choice, going forward, but to put America on the side of Arab reform.

. . . This is a breathtakingly bold undertaking. Everything might go wrong. But the crucial point to remember is that everything had already gone wrong. No available policy could justify optimism in the Arab world, but the new policy at least offers hope . . . [and] puts America on the right side of history and on the right side of America.

Bookmark.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

My hope is that Iran can find for itself a better government than either of these choices.

Hope springs eternal. But who did they have the better chance with for that better government?

You know and I know the answer. Even if the french don't.

[nicollo]

Bumping this for a later read. Thanks, Kayak!