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To: FaultLine who wrote (67920)	1/23/2003 3:37:13 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Her rules are terrific! Did you see her comments on Foreign Policy? LOL! I'm getting tired of the foreign policy whining. I'm getting tired of the whining from the left, as if their last two presidents were carving bold, visionary foreign policy coups out of the barren steppes of Republican thought, instead of shamelessly caving to every two-bit foreign power as long as they'd just go away and leave us alone so we could tinker with the welfare state. And I'm tired of whining from the right, as if it were the simplest thing in the world to hop up and Make the World Safe For Democracy with one big anti-terror bang. Sure, nothing would make my heart gladder than to see Sadaam "$20,000 for suicide bombers, but not one red cent for economic liberalization or personal liberty!" Hussein cowering in terror as his vaunted Republican Guards flee like the rabbits they are. But Bush is not Emperor of the World. (For which we may all humbly thank God every day). He does not call up his legions and say "Hark! Go thee forth and crush the barbarians under they muscled heels!" The world is a complicated place. Solutions are never as straightforward as they seem when the only thing you have to conquer is a 40 of Old English. All of you who think your heroes cut a straight, visionary line to the heart of the problems in front of them, guess again. Everyone from Churchill to Rockin' Ronnie scuttled hither and thither, seeming to lose their way, making missteps, and being harshly criticised from both sides for almost everything they did. Is Bush's foreign policy working? Damned if I know. And you don't either. As with the politically fiery, but apparently fairly harmless, destruction of an empty training camp and an occupied aspirin factory, the real effect of what he's doing won't be obvious for quite a while. Until then, give the guy some slack. I'm not saying that we shouldn't be debating the proper foreign policy -- we should, and vigorously. But declaring the Administration's foreign policy a failure before it's had a chance to work has a small chance of making commentators look like prophets, and a big chance of making them look like big fat idiots. janegalt.net posted by Jane Galt at 11:28 AM \| archived