apríl 15, 2003
The Hobbesian Dick Cheney and the Oedipal struggle of the Bushes
Stundum er ekki annað hægt en að brosa út í annað þegar maður les pistlanna hennar Maureenar Dowd.The Washington Post reported on Monday [31/3] that moderate Republicans were trying to do an intervention with the president to show him that hawks were giving him "bum advice."Warring Tribes, Here and There, 2. apríl, ©New York Times.
The article was clearly referring to the Bush I realpolitik crowd of James Baker, Brent Scowcroft, Lawrence Eagleburger and Mr. Powell and his acolytes at State. These pals of Poppy Bush are alarmed that the Hobbesian Dick Cheney - who has been down in his undisclosed locations reading books about how war is the natural state of mankind - the flamboyantly belligerent Rummy and the crusading neo-cons have mesmerized the president with their macho schemes.
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One former senior Republican official noted: "The only one who can reach the president is his father. But it is not timely yet to talk to him." This raised the odd specter of the president's being dragged off from running a war and taken to Kennebunkport for a Metternichian outing in the family cigarette boat. Mr. Scowcroft and Mr. Eagleburger could pin W. down while Bar steered and Poppy explained the facts of international life.
The Oedipal struggle of the Bushes - a father who was an ambassador to the U.N. and an envoy to China, a globe-trotting vice president and an internationalist president, and a son who was a Texas governor with little knowledge of the world - was bound to be aggravated by an invasion of Iraq not sanctioned by the U.N.
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Bush 43 is busy trying to do something his dad thought he'd done. The title of Bush 41's book: "A World Transformed."
Agust skrifaði 15.04.03 23:08
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