Daddy Hatebucks Sides With The Tyrants
I tell you, watching lefties trying to spin the tide of Middle East democratization is like the old tome about King Kanute denying the sea.
The Democratic Party's largest financial backer called President Bush's efforts to spread democracy throughout the Middle East "very dangerous" at an economic forum last week in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia."
"Dangerous" compared to what? The previous status quo that produced war and genocide and terrorism that cost 3,000 Americans their lives three and a half years ago?
We are not in a position to determine which country is democratic and what form of democracy a country should take," insisted billionaire currency speculator George Soros, in quotes picked up by the Financial Times.
Sure we are. Soros hasn't been paying attention to what the President has been saying, and it shows. Every country is democratizable because freedom is the universal yearning of the human heart and mind. The elections in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the Orange and Cedar Revolutions proved that anew. Indeed, what we are not entitled to do is dismiss some countries as "not ready for" or "not suited to" freedom and democracy, as this is the worst sort of elitist condescension and cultural bigotry.
He also missed the passage from the President's second Inaugual address that stressed that we do not and will not seek to micromanage the nascient democracies that develop as a result of this policy.
"There is a sort of fundamental misconception in President Bush's mind," Soros told the 3,000 delegates at the forum. "When Bush says freedom will prevail, he means the American will shall prevail."
No, he means freedom will prevail. American will is just a prerequisite for it, as this sort of paranoid defeatism negatively reinforces.
In any case, Mr. Soros of all people should know that the sort of "nuanced" dishonesty of which he accuses the President is far beyond the mental capabilities he attributes to him. Or is he tacitly acknowledging that Mr. Bush has suddenly "gotten smart"?
Soros went on: "We may be wrong, this is something that he just doesn't seem to admit."
"He seems to think that we ought to be right, we are the dominant power in the world, therefore we must be right," he told the panel in Jeddah – which just happens to be Osama bin Laden's hometown.
Why would the President admit a wrong when he's been proven right? Why else would Soros be so desperate to somehow spin the successes of the last few months against him? Besides, it's not as though he's having any more luck at it than his fellow Mensheviks.
"That is very dangerous because that comes very close to saying that might is right."
It's more like right makes might, actually.
Maybe the blogosphere should start a pool on how long it will be before people like GS stop denying the obvious and start grandfathering themselves onto the receding bandwagon. It may be a shorter transition than we think.
The Democratic Party's largest financial backer called President Bush's efforts to spread democracy throughout the Middle East "very dangerous" at an economic forum last week in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia."
"Dangerous" compared to what? The previous status quo that produced war and genocide and terrorism that cost 3,000 Americans their lives three and a half years ago?
We are not in a position to determine which country is democratic and what form of democracy a country should take," insisted billionaire currency speculator George Soros, in quotes picked up by the Financial Times.
Sure we are. Soros hasn't been paying attention to what the President has been saying, and it shows. Every country is democratizable because freedom is the universal yearning of the human heart and mind. The elections in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the Orange and Cedar Revolutions proved that anew. Indeed, what we are not entitled to do is dismiss some countries as "not ready for" or "not suited to" freedom and democracy, as this is the worst sort of elitist condescension and cultural bigotry.
He also missed the passage from the President's second Inaugual address that stressed that we do not and will not seek to micromanage the nascient democracies that develop as a result of this policy.
"There is a sort of fundamental misconception in President Bush's mind," Soros told the 3,000 delegates at the forum. "When Bush says freedom will prevail, he means the American will shall prevail."
No, he means freedom will prevail. American will is just a prerequisite for it, as this sort of paranoid defeatism negatively reinforces.
In any case, Mr. Soros of all people should know that the sort of "nuanced" dishonesty of which he accuses the President is far beyond the mental capabilities he attributes to him. Or is he tacitly acknowledging that Mr. Bush has suddenly "gotten smart"?
Soros went on: "We may be wrong, this is something that he just doesn't seem to admit."
"He seems to think that we ought to be right, we are the dominant power in the world, therefore we must be right," he told the panel in Jeddah – which just happens to be Osama bin Laden's hometown.
Why would the President admit a wrong when he's been proven right? Why else would Soros be so desperate to somehow spin the successes of the last few months against him? Besides, it's not as though he's having any more luck at it than his fellow Mensheviks.
"That is very dangerous because that comes very close to saying that might is right."
It's more like right makes might, actually.
Maybe the blogosphere should start a pool on how long it will be before people like GS stop denying the obvious and start grandfathering themselves onto the receding bandwagon. It may be a shorter transition than we think.
posted by JASmius at 11:33 AM
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