Bush's Favorite Myth (devastating piece in the Los Angeles Times}

[kpete]

January 15, 2006
Bush's Favorite Myth
Republican wordsmith Mark Helprin writes a devastating piece in the Los Angeles Times about "the myth" that shapes President Bush's world.


"The President believes and often states, as if it were a self-evident truth, that 'democracies are peaceful countries.' This claim, which has been advanced in the past in regard to Christianity, socialism, Islam and ethical culture, is the postulate on which the foreign policy of the United States now rests."

The problem is that Bush himself proved it's not true.

"Even without reference to the case of a democracy that, finding self-defense insufficient justification and retaliation an insufficient end, makes war on a non-democracy so as to make the non-democracy a democracy, the postulate on which the president has in all good faith chosen to rely is contradicted by inconvenient fact."

Helprin was a speechwriter for Sen. Bob Dole's 1996 presidential campaign. Salon did an interesting interview with him at the time.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2006/01/15/bushs_favorite_myth.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-op-helprin15jan15,0,4648779.story

[tmooses]

1. "we destroyed the village so we could save it. " Bush doesn't believe

this "democracy" myth anymore than Saddam's regime was holding free elections in Iraq's version of democracy. It's nothing more than a way to market global domination in a way that is "reasonable" to the blind masses in this country.

[Betsy Ross]

2. So far, nothing has been "devastating" to *. n/t