Enjoy it while it lasts
Enjoy the honeymoon while it lasts. The liberals won't give the President credit for long. This short-term quasi-endorsement of President Bush's Middle East policy will crack up within weeks.
Democracy will not be achieved overnight in the Middle East, and the President has never claimed that it will. But count on it that the liberals - whose motto might well be "no-one will ever call me on it if I change my tune" - will quickly return to their strategy of calling his policy "an impossible dream" etc. Having briefly accepted the blindingly obvious because not to do so would smack of stupidity, they will quickly return to the negativist attitude which characterises all liberal foreign policy - "nothing ever changes, especially when America tries to bring about the change."
How long will this about-face take? I predict a matter of weeks from now.
Democracy will not be achieved overnight in the Middle East, and the President has never claimed that it will. But count on it that the liberals - whose motto might well be "no-one will ever call me on it if I change my tune" - will quickly return to their strategy of calling his policy "an impossible dream" etc. Having briefly accepted the blindingly obvious because not to do so would smack of stupidity, they will quickly return to the negativist attitude which characterises all liberal foreign policy - "nothing ever changes, especially when America tries to bring about the change."
How long will this about-face take? I predict a matter of weeks from now.
Labels: george bush, middle east, politics
posted by Jan Dawson at 10:00 PM
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