more Bush

[Henry Secularpeturbations]

--- MalignD at aol.com wrote:
> I was watching the news a little while ago,
> listening to the French and 
> Germans, but also listening to the Arabs, who met
> today in Turkey, and 
> apparently are in earnest trying to persuade Saddam
> to relent, even offering 
> him means to exile, should he choose to leave, as
> many of them seem to want 
> him to do.
> 
> I'm as loath to give W credit as the next guy, but I
> found myself wondering 
> whether it was realistic that he was as simplistic
> in his thinking as he 
> appears to be.  Wondering that, I thought of Nixon,
> who incorporated being 
> thought crazy into his foreign policy (i.e., acted
> crazy); thought of Reagan, 
> whose presidency (by most lights successful) was
> almost entirely acting; and 
> of W's father, who apparently genuinely hated Saddam
> at a personal level.  
> Adding these up, I found myself wondering whether W
> was employing the same 
> tactic, acting like a drunken cowboy, wanting to be
> taken as such, with the 
> world invited to believe that he was using American
> foreign policy and 
> military might to get personal retribution for
> Poppy.  Thinking that, it 
> struck me that the French and Germans couldn't be
> serving W better if the 
> situation were scripted:  even the allies think he's
> nuts!  He must be for 
> real!
> 
> And maybe not.


But why must there be a script? A conspiracy? A
Nixonian ploy? A drama made for conspiracy TV? Maybe
the Bush people don't know what they are  going to do
next. That's a possibility. Isn't it? And would it be
such a bad thing? 

 no. 

It's a complicated game, like chess. White moves.
Black moves. One move changes the board.  

Looking back we see that presidents didn't always have
a plan to deal with these complicated problems. Sure,
they had lots of ideas, plans even... but Sometimes
there was no logic, no principles ... just good old
fashioned American seat of the pants working it out as
we go...deducing, if we must,  after we move. 




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