All week I've hoped to have time to write a post rebuking the silly piece of illogical sloganeering that Condi Rice put in last Sunday's Washington Post. Sadly, I've never had the time given how busy things have been at work. But still, I think we should have some critique of it handy - so I give you the response of Ivo Daalder.
And of course Daalder doesn't even get into the specifics of the Middle East section of the text. That part's really funny. She sets up a straw-man - supposedly opponents of Bush thought things were "just peachy" in the Middle East before the president launched his liberal crusade - then goes on about the evils and ills of the region (deserved knocking the president's opponents, but quite silent about the autocrats that support Mr. Bush), and then argues that everything good that's happened in the region is the result of Mr. Bush's policies (not simply prideful and arrogant, but obviously inaccurate). And in the middle of this bit of Pollyanna nonsense she actually applauds Egypt/Mubarak. Of course Condi lies, but here she's just being ridiculous - or setting the bar for what we should want out of foreign policy so low that she can't be serious.
Posted by armand at December 18, 2005 03:23 PM | TrackBack | Posted to International Affairs