Saturday, July 15, 2006

Swaggering to nowhere

SoooooTrue

Swaggering to nowhere Salon: (Fullarticle; it's worth the Day Pass)

President Bush was against diplomacy before he was for it. But with the collapse of U.S. foreign policy across the board he has discarded talk of preemptive strikes and reluctantly claimed to have become a born-again realist. 'And it's, kind of -- you know, it's kind of painful in a way for some to watch, because it takes a while to get people on the same page,' he said at his July 7 press conference, adding, in an astonished tone, 'Not everybody thinks the exact same way we think. Different words mean different things to different people.'

Just two years ago, he appeared before the Republican Convention boasting of his 'swagger, which in Texas is called walking.' But in the face of the consequences of his failures, he has not adopted a new doctrine so much as swaggered into a corner. The cowboy's White House has become Fort Apache.

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