More escapism from an unbearable political reality

Bizarre. Israeli columnist Caroline Glick opines that the U.S. war in Iraq is going badly, but that it’s not President Bush’s fault. Bush, she says, “clearly knows what he wants to do.” The problem is that Secretary of State Rice is undermining Bush’s strong policy with her own policy of appeasement.

Glick has got to be kidding. Rice is Bush’s highest cabinet officer, his closest personal friend in the government, his twin brain, his (as he has put it) “genius.” To say that Rice is not carrying out Bush’s policy is absurd on the face of it. Whatever she is doing, she is doing with his warm approval and support.

Glick’s blame-shifting reminds me of David Horowitz’s oft repeated claim (though I think he is making it less often in the last year or so) that whatever has gone wrong in Iraq has been the fault of the Bush-hating American left. According to this view, the disaster of America’s involvement in Iraq was not caused in the slightest by the man who conceived it, organized it, led it, and explained it, but by his domestic political enemies.

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Ben writes:

For Glick to say that Iraq is in a mess because of Rice is totally absurd. This was Bush’s baby from day one. Everything has gone according to Bush himself. The whole stay the course, never change route has all been him and totally him. The problem with many Christians who are pro-Israeli (with Glick being a major friend to them) is that they can never admit no matter how strong the evidence that maybe George Bush is their enemy as well and doesn’t have the best interests of either America or Israel at heart. They like to imagine that it is all Rumsfeld’s fault, or Rice’s, or some other shadowy figure in his administration and of course the Democrats. It’s pathetic that Glick would not realize that what Rice said the other day about Israel was not condemned or refuted by Bush, yet she likes to imagine that now all the problems going on are the result of Rice.

I would not expect this from Glick. For a woman who calls her own government and Olmert to very high standards, she doesn’t seem to hold Bush to any.

Bush, she says, “clearly knows what he wants to do.”

Oh yeah, since when? Name these clear policies that are not just rhetoric but rhetoric backed up with real policy. I guess she means his pro Israeli stand forcing the so called roadmap that Israel give up more land for nothing in return. I guess that was all Rice too.

Mladen A. writes:

Caroline Glick needs something to hope for and cling to. It is hard these days to live in Israel, a “one bomb country,” and imagine that President Bush is not going to move a finger to destroy the Iranian nuclear facilities. We all know that we will have to do it ourselves, but we all hope that this time, as opposed to 1981, the U.S. with its F 22s , B1s and B52s will realize that it’s in US’s best interest to do it, for it is the only power that can do it right without using tactical nuclear weapons . But with Sharon in a coma and Netanyahu showing signs of memory loss Israelis are anxious looking at the man who will have to make the crucial decisions. No wonder Caroline Glick’s analysis looks bizarre.

I don’t hear from many people like the writer of the next e-mails anymore, but it’s useful to be reminded that such people exist. If, as the correspondent believes, Bush is an idiot tool in the hands of the Jews and he launched the invasion of Iraq at the behest of Israel, then why is Bush now supporting and empowering the Palestinians? The “the Jews are behind it all” people can’t be bothered with little contradictions like that.

The reader writes:

First, This is NOT Bush’s war. This man is too dumb. It was your fellow Jews, Richard Pearle and Paul Wolfiwitz and the other neocons like Bill Kristol that egged on President Bush. We WERE doing the bidding of Israel by knocking out Saddam who was paying compensation packages to Palestinian suicide bomber families.

Bush is a dumb yahoo. It was others i.e. the Council of Foreign Relation types that forced this war for the matter of globalization. Bush was manipulated into this war. His dumbness led to his manipulation. If the man can’t put two words together in a coherent sentence, then it tells you something. This man was NOT smart enough to engineer this war. He is a Puppet.

Second, despite the first response of this article, this whole debacle is caused by American’s blindness to race and religion. Race doesn’t figure into foreign policy matters because we are all taught that there is no such thing as race and that each race has peculiar characteristics and traits. Americans think everybody is like them and that democracy is just as good for Iraqi as it is for them.

Again, Americans are a foolish and dumb people.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at October 28, 2006 07:22 PM | Send