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| Dowd: Bush is namby-pamby |
| 2001-10-28 |
As Rudyard Kipling's Kim reports back to his British spymasters, from the mountainous moonscape of Afghanistan, "Certain things are not known to those who eat with forks." After six weeks of a war at home and a war in Asia, we now understand what we do not understand. The terrorists and Taliban have the psychological edge on three fronts: military, propaganda and bioterror. George W. Bush was brought up to believe in Marquess of Queensberry rules. Now he is competing against combatants with Genghis of Khan rules, who hide among women and children in mosques and school dormitories, and who don't need an executive order to betray and murder. Polo at Yale is a bit different than the Afghan version, bushkazi, a violent free-for-all with no rules in which galloping horsemen try to throw a headless goat's carcass over a goal. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |