Harry speaks the language:
It just so happens, for a series of reasons, not least of which was the September 11 atrocity, that the Americans have decided to adopt another strategy to the one that served them during the cold war - a strategy of containment and alliances with local elites dominated by the priority of stability.Posted by Dr. Frank at November 20, 2003 05:19 PM | TrackBackOr if you want me to put it in language that neither Frum nor Bush would ever use: the American ruling class has realised that a bourgeois-democratic revolution in the Middle East needs to be encouraged. Such a revolution, bringing with it the rights enjoyed by the European and North American working class and other strata, is objectively in the interests of the masses in that region...
This revolution is then a step forward and a historically necessary one. And, as we know from history, it isn't the first time that the interests of the bourgeois coincide, temporarily, with those of the oppressed masses.
Year right. I'm sure GWB is encouraging and would support a "democratic revolution" in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and all our other "allies" in the Middle East.
Posted by: Keith at November 21, 2003 03:26 AMIsn't it about time that the liberals give GW a break? They're just pissed at what a complete and total utter embarrasment that Clinton was in office. It's not the Republicans' fault for his behaviour. They just attempted to hold him accountable for his actions.
Posted by: Channon at November 22, 2003 01:10 AMSo, you agree that GW has no interest in spreading democracy to the countries I mentioned previously?
Clinton getting a blowjob didn't get 400+ brave men and women killed. And while the Republicans had 700 FBI agents combing Arkansas looking for possible Clinton girlfriends, terrorist groups were thankful that America terrorist hunters had their attention focused on Clinton's zipper instead of on national defense.
Posted by: Keith at November 22, 2003 04:40 AMIt's funny that when the word embarrassment and Clinton are used together, one automatically assumes "Monica". President Clinton and her husband were constant targets of criminal investigations, missing and reappearing paperwork, mysterious dying coconspirators, creative funding and just plain "making up new rules/laws to suit their will". These were/are devious and evil people of the likes that made Nixon look like a choir-boy.
Posted by: Channon at November 24, 2003 09:40 PM