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Aug. 22nd, 2006 09:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cyranoHome again, home again, jiggety jig.
On the 'No Fly' list:
Yogurt
applesauce
New:
Tinned pasta
A peanut butter and jelly sandwich
(As the TSA agent explained to me, there's gel in that 'jelly'.)
From moses: Touched by His noodly appendage
Posted without comment from today's column in the Portland Oregonian by the National Review's Rich Lowry:
This is not to say that the United States is flawless. Our mistakes, however, tend to be the product of an excess of zeal and idealism. We don't do coldblooded calculation well. Some of this is the product of being a superpower; dishonest diplomatic ploys are beneath us. Some of it is the nature of our democracy, which values openness and honesty.
...we are in Iraq for exactly the achingly innocent reasons we say. We are spending and bleeding there tyring to plant a liberal democracy in the hardscrabble soil of Mesopotamia. When President Bush is gone, there will be a change in foreign policy. But it won't be a change the foreign policy establishment likes. It won't be toward a let's-talk-even-more-to-the-French multilateralism as represented by Sen Chuck Hagel, R-Neb, It will be something more selfish and hardheaded, something more French in its motivations. Bush without the soft touches. Then, the world will miss the earnest do-gooding United States of old.
On the 'No Fly' list:
Yogurt
applesauce
New:
Tinned pasta
A peanut butter and jelly sandwich
(As the TSA agent explained to me, there's gel in that 'jelly'.)
From moses: Touched by His noodly appendage
Posted without comment from today's column in the Portland Oregonian by the National Review's Rich Lowry:
This is not to say that the United States is flawless. Our mistakes, however, tend to be the product of an excess of zeal and idealism. We don't do coldblooded calculation well. Some of this is the product of being a superpower; dishonest diplomatic ploys are beneath us. Some of it is the nature of our democracy, which values openness and honesty.
...we are in Iraq for exactly the achingly innocent reasons we say. We are spending and bleeding there tyring to plant a liberal democracy in the hardscrabble soil of Mesopotamia. When President Bush is gone, there will be a change in foreign policy. But it won't be a change the foreign policy establishment likes. It won't be toward a let's-talk-even-more-to-the-French multilateralism as represented by Sen Chuck Hagel, R-Neb, It will be something more selfish and hardheaded, something more French in its motivations. Bush without the soft touches. Then, the world will miss the earnest do-gooding United States of old.