Bush Is Running Out of Alibis (conservative site alert)

[ellenfl]

i read this before i looked to see who wrote it . . .

"The road of isolationism and protectionism may seem broad and inviting, yet it ends in danger and decline," railed President Bush in his State of the Union. Again and again, Bush returned to his theme.

"America rejects the false comfort of isolationism. ...

"Isolationism would not only tie our hands in fighting enemies, it would keep us from helping our friends in desperate need. ...

"American leaders from Roosevelt to Truman to Kennedy to Reagan rejected isolation and retreat."

Why would a president use his State of the Union to lash out at a school of foreign policy thought that has had zero influence in his administration? The answer is a simple one, but it is not an easy one for Bush to face: His foreign policy is visibly failing, and his critics have been proven right.

More (i apoligize for the graphics on the right side of the page) :eyes:

by Patrick J. Buchanan
Posted Feb 03, 2006

ellen fl

[sasha031]

1. Buchanan has written allot of articles that make sense

but he is till a unscrupulous hack.

[DBoon]

4. no just a fascist or falangeist

He is sincere, but also sincerely wrong

[DarkmoonIkonoklast]

7. The most dangerous criminal is the one who believes...

... in his divine mandate to commit his crime!

[DBoon]

12. Meaning the sincerely evil?

as opposed to the lying evil?

[emulatorloo]

2. How about this one -----

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5445086/

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Tucker Carlson

President Bush wants us to be proud of America. This is my favorite thing about Bush. Unlike many of his critics, he is genuinely, instinctively proud of our country, and he’s right to be. But Bush also wants us to be proud of the work we’ve done spreading democracy around the world. (In 1945, there were 24 democracies in the world, he boasted tonight. Today there are 122.) I’m not so sure I’m proud of this.

For one thing, I wouldn’t want my son to die for someone else’s democracy. To protect the United States? Sure, and I’d join him. But so that Iraqis can cast ballots for some Islamic party? Nope. No way.

Democracy isn’t an end; it’s a means, a mechanism. Democracies reflect the nature of the people who participate in them. Stable, peaceful cultures produce stable, peaceful governments. Primitive, violent cultures elect governments to match. The goal isn’t representative government. The goal is humane, decent government. Last week, Palestinians handed an electoral victory to Hamas. It was a free and fair election, but it was still an atrocity.

Bush seems to recognize this. Tonight he warned Hamas that it must stop supporting terrorism. Then, just moments later, he said this: “Democracies in the Middle East will not look like our own because they will reflect their own traditions.”

But what if “their own traditions” include suicide bombing? You see the problem.

Bush clearly doesn’t. A paragraph after calling on the people of the world to stop Iran’s nuclear program, he told “the people of Iran” that “we respect your right to choose your own future.” But not your own nuclear programs.

The president’s job is not to make the world a perfect place. It’s to protect America and America’s interests. And often you can’t do both. Conservatives used to know this.
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[marmar]

3. Sorry, Mr. Tucker "Obnoxious Prick in a Bowtie" Carlson

But President Bush wants to destroy America.

[Luke21]

5. These are the issues ripping the GOP in half

The GOP is fraying. It isn't united. Like a horse that is fat from eating too many oats, the Republicans think they are the universal choice of the masses. They are going to get beat like dogs this fall.

The traditional issues the parties have argued about are changing. Protectionism, the rights of workers, retirement issues, and good wages are winners. The GOP is starting to stand for "globalists on parade." If the Democrats ever figured out what globalism is doing to our workers and created a platform around it, the GOP would be out of business.

The Republicans have won at all levels. So fat and happy, they concentrate on eating their own and forcing Bushism down everyone's throats. We will see the rebirth of a two party system this coming November.

[ellenfl]

6. that's how i saw this article. if the repug hacks are

turning on him, then all is not well in bush's empire. both buchanan and bow-tie boy were extolling bush's virtues not that long ago.

ellen fl

[DarkmoonIkonoklast]

9. We will see the rebirth of a two party system this November...

... unless Martial Law is declared in October. All that would require would be another "terrorist attack" on the homeland in, say, October.

Paranoid? I PRAY that I'm insane!!

[DarkmoonIkonoklast]

8. What makes anyone think dubya cares...

... about America? He is, in my view, whooly owned by something far more deadly than Eisenhower's "Military-Industrial Complex"... He is owned by the Armageddonite Conspiracy.

[orleans]

10. tucker seems to have come a long way from when i hated him so

much on crossfire. i liked watching his show (because i love rachel and that max guy was fun)

but then they changed the time to when he cut into malloy and even tho i thought rachel was starting to get to him--she wasn't on for awhile and i certainly couldn't stand to watch him without her.

but--rambling here--what i meant to say is that the worm is turning. not quickly enough to suit me, but turning ever so slightly nonetheless.

[area51]

11. "Isolationism ...would keep us from helping our friends in desperate need"

Yo, Pat: We have people in this country in desperate need, whether it's Katrina victims, people who can't afford medical care, or people who can't find jobs in this 2nd Great Depression.