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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Andrew N. Cothran who wrote (1054)	1/3/2005 4:06:59 PM
From: cirrus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224707

Interesting. Instead of defending or explaining Bush's initial lack of response to the tragedy you call me a "whiner". If so, I'm not alone. Not by a long shot. As one foreign commentator put it: ""Bush missed a great opportunity to soothe relations with the muslim world, and counter the bad boy image of the US among the world's nations." Ralph Nader wrote: "Unparalleled opportunities for solidarity among a wide expanse of the world’s peoples elevate the best instincts of humanity and its governors. Divisions, tensions, bigotries, and violent conflicts are submerged by these common expressions of care, love and rescue. For Bush, since many of the victims were Muslim, it would have softened the daily belligerence that they see him emitting for many months. Such sensibilities seem to escape both the President and his hard-nosed advisers." An MSNBC poll indicated that 62% of the respondents (39,272) felt Bush should have spoken out earlier about the Tsunami disaster. msnbc.msn.com Some foreign policy specialists said Bush's actions and words both communicated a lack of urgency about an event that will loom as large in the collective memories of several countries as the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks do in the United States. "When that many human beings die -- at the hands of terrorists or nature -- you've got to show that this matters to you, that you care," said Leslie H. Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations. There was an international outpouring of support after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and even some administration officials familiar with relief efforts said they were surprised that Bush had not appeared personally to comment on the tsunami tragedy. "It's kind of freaky," a senior career official said. washingtonpost.com Whatever what I think of Bush's brain, I'm pleased that Bush had the sense to eventually recognize that this was an opportunity to do some real good in the world. That you consider critics of his initial non-reaction and those who urged a leadership role to be... "whiners"... says a lot about your brain. Well, cirrus, you may not be a sore loser but you are still a whiner, right? It is almost as if you always know before anyone else what Bush should or should not do and when he should or should not do it. If Bush is a minute later than you think appropriate, you don't bother to find out why he may have delayed. You immediately conclude that his brain, inept as it is in your view, prevents him from a timely action. And for you, a Bush action to be timely must be at least a minute before you devise your criticism.