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Originally posted by jaguar
Now thats a freudian slip if i ever saw one.
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Hahaha, I thought the exact same thing but wasn't gonna say anything!
I am a pretty big fan of George Jr.'s, I think he has handled his presidency very well thus far, but I do think he was a little naive on this whole situation until last week. Not that I think he was lax, but rather that he didn't understand the whole scope.
Of course, a year ago I thought probably about 75-80% of the world thought the U.S. was pretty swell, and about 99.5% of people agreed that blowing up a nightclub full of innocent teenagers was terrorism. Looks like I was wrong on both counts, and so were a lot of Americans.
I'd always heard criticisms about how Americans were concerned only with themselves and were oblivious to everyone else. I dismissed it because we're bigger than most countries... for most of the rest of the world, knowing what's going on in the countries around you is like me the Hoosier knowing what's going on in Illinois. Being up-to-date on foreign policy means knowing what referendum California just passed this year.
But we can't be oblivious any longer, and as Undertoad points out, it's very difficult to strike a balance between playing policeman and letting everyone deal with their own problems. I think Dubya happened to calculate a little too far on the latter side regarding the Middle East, but he's coming around very quickly, and my kudos to him.
--toby