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| 2004-05-15 |
Via Dissecting Leftism:Watching the amazing ugliness and incoherence of the Iraqi battlefront of the war on terror, it is easy to understand Otto Von Bismark’s comment that a special providence watches out for drunks, fools and the United States of America. Why? Because America is winning the war on terror. How? By slowly but surely making the Middle East safe for democracy. Indeed, it is even possible to argue that the American stumbling in Iraq is providing a cover under which reform can be presented as an alternative, even a rebuke, to American military power. In other words, the U.S. is winning the way it has often won, ugly.... |
| Posted by:Anonymous2U |
| #3 Oh absolutely. The Euros, who are unquestioned judges in these matters, were doing splendidly in Yugoslavia until Clinton and the USAF started making things ugly. /sarcasm. Someone linked to an article which pointed out that Americans regarded European competence in international affairs as being in the same class as Barney Fife and Wile E. Coyote, Genius. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2004-05-15 9:44:54 PM |
| #2 I think it's meant in the sense of "it doesn't have to be pretty, just so long as it gets done." |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2004-05-15 6:40:58 PM |
| #1 I can only suppose that "ugly" is meant in the same negative sense that Churchill used in referring to democracy being so bad. Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried. - Winston Churchill - |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-05-15 5:40:55 PM |