Reflections on the "New American" Revolution
Thursday, November 06, 2003
Idealism in the Face Of a Troubled Reality (washingtonpost.com): "The United States has adopted a new policy: a forward strategy of freedom in the Middle East. This strategy requires the same persistence and energy and idealism we have shown before. And it will yield the same results"
This is a very important speech. It tells us that Bush has run out of excuses for the Iraq debacle, and is trying to change the subject. It tells us that the neo-conservative agenda is now his policy. And it tells us that we have lost our democracy--the man who ran on a platform against nation building, now demands that every nation obey his orders.
What we have here is a man out of control. A man who is pursuing a radical agenda for which he has no democractic mandate. A man who claimed to invade a sovereign nation because it was a threat to us, who now can no longer claim that. So he has to try to justify his actions some other way. And he has done so in a speech that says he will take pre-emptive action to create democracy in any country that he feels doesn't have democracy.
Given the results of his "pre-emption" in Iraq, i can only say god help us all.
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