Bingo. That's basically exactly how I feel. It's funny, I was schmoozing with an Israeli official friend today, and I was saying something similar to what Pollack says above. I concluded my rant by saying, "it takes some pretty fancy footwork to go up against one of the nastiest thugs in the world and end up with everybody thinking you're the bad guy." My Israeli friend laughed, and said "Welcome to the club!"
Hey, what's so hard about it? Just start a fight that scares other people, who they gonna complain to? The thug? Will he listen? Nah, it's you they're gonna beat on. Just ask your friend -g-ng-
Charlie Rose had a good program tonight; he had a very intelligent conversation with Senator Biden, then spoke to some European correspondents. The correspondents said that they never remembered a higher pitch of anti-Americanism, or more specifically, anti-Bush-administration-ism. The main complaints were that Bush adminstration was announcing policy without talking to them first. Clinton never did that; he met with European leaders in private. (I'm thinking, yeah, and what did he get the Europeans to do about the Balkans?).
Senator Biden was less diplomatic. He said, "yes, this is all about oil -- for France" and "Europe has no strong leaders today". |
