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Thursday, January 27, 2005

Failed Leadership



A Multi-Polar World
The Cold War-style American century is over and the world is entering a new multi-polar era, where the US is not considered the "leader of the free world" in any meaningful sense by anybody outside its borders. An interesting piece from MyDD via Daily Kos: "In a second inaugural address tinged with evangelical zeal, George W. Bush declared: "Today, America speaks anew to the peoples of the world." The peoples of the world, however, do not seem to be listening. A new world order is indeed emerging - but its architecture is being drafted in Asia and Europe, at meetings to which Americans have not been invited......

Ironically, the US, having won the cold war, is adopting the strategy that led the Soviet Union to lose it: hoping that raw military power will be sufficient to intimidate other great powers alienated by its belligerence. To compound the irony, these other great powers are drafting the blueprints for new international institutions and alliances. That is what the US did during and after the second world war."

And another fine piece from The Black Commentator: Crazy President, Crazy Nation via Knock Knock, Who's There?: "It is clear that George W. Bush is suffering from a terrible pathology, a sick paranoia...What is less clear is that the whole nation is quickly catching up with his level of insanity.

We know the Bush story. A mediocre man was pushed along into schools, jobs and businesses that he simply wasn’t qualified to handle. Living up to the Peter Principle he rose to the level of his own incompetence and became president.

Perhaps it is time to stop criticizing Bush for his shortcomings and talk about the nation’s shortcomings too. It is fitting that he leads a nation completely unqualified to be a world leader in any way."

Or as Hoffmania puts it How many Bush Administration officials does it take to screw in a light bulb?

"None. There is nothing wrong with the light bulb. Its conditions are improving every day. Any reports of its lack of incandescence are a delusional spin from the liberal media. That light bulb has served honorably, and anything you say undermines the lighting effect. Why do you hate freedom?"
|| JM, 7:35 AM

2 Comments:

I particularly liked the joke at the end of the post, but thank you for sharing with such humor. We need more humor amongst the crappy going's on right now. -Kate
Anonymous Anonymous, at 2:01 PM  
Hey, Mary here at Knock Knock. Super funny post again and I linked to you on my site so more people can get a laugh. Maybe your humor will wake people up. Thanks for the link, John.
Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:38 PM  

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