March 23, 2003
LESSER PEOPLES:
Perle's Plunder Blunder (MAUREEN DOWD, 3/23/03, NY Times)The pre-emption doctrine prefers ad hoc coalitions, allowing an unfettered America to strike at threats and potential threats. At A.E.I., Mr. Perle boasted that far from going it alone, the Bush administration had a coalition of "more than 40 countries and . . . growing." (Including Micronesia, Mongolia and the Marshall Islands,
all of them.)
This contempt for our coalition partners is a strange theme that the anti-war folks keep hitting on. They seem to genuinely despise the people of other countries; no wonder they don't care about Iraqis. Posted by Orrin Judd at March 23, 2003 8:23 AM
But in all fairness, similar contempt was being displayed by pro-war folks for U.N. members Cameroon, Guinea and Angola.
Posted by: TBC at March 23, 2003 8:43 AMI've been skimming various conservative sites throughout the last few months and there have been many more snide comments about the US's partners from anti-war folk than insults directed at Cameroon, Angola and Guineau.
And in any case it was on a much lower level than the opprobium directed against France.
Contempt, Inc.
The point is to hold America's Republican leadership and its supporters in contempt--along with anyone and anything that allies itself with America's leaders--and, in effect, defending all those regimes that likewise hold America in contempt, all the while claiming to stand for the true values of America.
The contradictions are as laughable as they are mind-boggling.
(Who said that all humor was conservative?)
Totally O.T., but did the Times change its web site? It seems I can access today's articles with out going through the registration, uh, stuff. Strange days.
Posted by: Buttercup at March 23, 2003 9:51 AMButtercup:
Once you register the first time you shouldn't have to keep doing so.
TBC:
Valid point.
Of course, it usually takes a conservative to notice the contradictions.
Posted by: Bruce Cleaver at March 23, 2003 11:33 AMMr. Judd--I registered a long time ago and their web site has never let me go right to the article. I have always had to go through their registration page and try to remember my user name, etc. Theirs is the only site I have this problem.
Posted by: Buttercup at March 23, 2003 12:43 PMButtercup:
That's strange. Maybe Howell Raines knows how you feel about his paper. :)
Mr. Judd--Well, I always did think that I wasn't missing much.
Posted by: Buttercup at March 23, 2003 7:18 PMMy experience with the Times on line matches
Buttercup's.