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Friday, February 24, 2006
Back in the U.A.E.
A friend asked me today (I'm home from vacation BTW) why 3WN has had so little to say about the UAE/port issue. I think it often happens that an issue gets such wide coverage that it becomes difficult to say anything that hasn't already been said better somewhere else. (Yes, I know that has not stopped me in the past.) When that is the case we tend to assume readers are getting their fill of an issue elsewhere and concentrate on other stories. The consequence is that it sometimes appears we are ignoring a major issue. I think this is one of those times and Paul Krugman sums up my thoughts better than I would have any way:
That does not mean, however, that we cannot still provide a link and a nice photo to promote UAE tourism.Mr. Bush shouldn't really be losing his credibility as a terrorism fighter over the ports deal, which, after careful examination (which hasn't happened yet), may turn out to be O.K. Instead, Mr. Bush should have lost his credibility long ago over his diversion of U.S. resources away from the pursuit of Al Qaeda and into an unnecessary war in Iraq, his bungling of that war, and his adoption of a wrongful imprisonment and torture policy that has blackened America's reputation.
But there is, nonetheless, a kind of rough justice in Mr. Bush's current predicament. After 9/11, the American people granted him a degree of trust rarely, if ever, bestowed on our leaders. He abused that trust, and now he is facing a storm of skepticism about his actions — a storm that sweeps up everything, things related and not.
1 Comments:
I sure hope you are not implying that the Bush brothers have any thing other than our best interests at heart. That would be very unpatriotic of you and I won't stand for it.
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