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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (31631)	11/17/2003 12:18:57 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

Beyond Bush Lite commondreams.org <<...Certainly, the stakes are high. The Bush Administration is reaping the bitter harvest of an ideology detached from reality and they are vulnerable simply because their policies are failing, not because the Democrats have something better on offer. Simply by not being Republicans are the Democrats poised to take the White House. But neo-con failure comes in two categories: incompetent policy-level management and the irrational promotion of a dysfunctional grand strategy. To the extent that Democrats seek to profit from the failed policy-level efforts of the Bush Administration and do not address the deeper underlying dysfunction between our economic engine and our strategic posture—Americans will reject Democratic leadership. Maybe not in 2004, but as our unsustainable economic engine puts more and more demands on our national security architecture, and crises become more numerous and more severe, Democrats will see first a Republican super-majority in 2006 and then the loss of the White House in 2008. That is, if such a short-sighted strategy does not trigger both nightmare scenarios in 2004. I would define Bush Lite as the unquestioning acceptance of the current set of national interests, the inability to see beyond short-term symptomatic threats, and the attempt to make the argument, “my marginal economic stimulus and war on terrorism is better than Bush’s.” In other words, it is the inability to recognize and admit that American grand strategy, a dinosaur hatched in the 1940’s, is now so out of date that further tweaking is impossible. A new correlation of means to ends is necessary and Americans can sense it...>>