Random Thoughts on the "Crisis" [title changed]

[Trajan Octavian Titus]

Random Thoughts on the "Crisis" [Victor Davis Hanson]

We admire speaking softly and carrying a big stick, while deploring speaking loudly and carrying a small stick, but the British apparently are both speaking softly and carrying a small stick. This incident is sort of a scraping off the veneer of a generally known, but little discussed truth: that the U.K. has become often not the exception to, but the nexus of, a new sort of European thinking antithetical to the U.S. Blair's stalwart role in Iraq has disguised that fact; but any who read the U.K papers, both right and left, look at the opinion polls, or consider the Islamic problems in London, can easily conclude that Anglo-American exceptionalism is coming to an end for existential reasons that transcend this administration.

Since 9/11 we have been lectured on the advantages of "soft" power, especially in the context of the economic engine of the EU used for moral purposes. But if the Europe Union is still extending trade credits to a belligerent that has committed an act of piracy against a fellow member, then there is neither soft or hard power, but no power at all............................


..........................We were all waiting for the final shoe to fall: It is America's fault. And sure enough the Independent headline blaming us came in on schedule. The story line was predictable: We apparently tried to detain those masterminding the Iranian efforts to kill Americans in Iraq, then "botched" this illegal effort at getting "legitimate" diplomats, and thus left the poor British to sweep up the mess. So Bush — not lax officers, insane rules of engagement, or Iranian perfidy and aggression — did it after all.

The Corner on National Review Online=

Ofcourse it is, thanks independent it's all so clear now. :roll:

 

[CurrentAffairs]

Re: It's Bush's Fault

Isn't everything Bush's fault?

 

[Binary_Digit]

Re: It's Bush's Fault

"Random thoughts" indeed. He didn't give one reason why the article is wrong, just a fancy 4-paragraph way of saying "nuh-uh!"

 

[Trajan Octavian Titus]

Re: It's Bush's Fault

"Random thoughts" indeed. He didn't give one reason why the article is wrong, just a fancy 4-paragraph way of saying "nuh-uh!"

So you agree with the Independent that it is the fault of GWB that the Iranians illegally crossed into Iraqi waters and took British Sailors hostage? What planet do you people come from? These so called "Iranian diplomats" were ****ing members of the revolutionary guard al-Quds division who were meeting with the insurgency. "Diplomats," my as$. Not to mention that there is no evidence that they were the targets in the first place other than the fact that they were in the same city at the time of the raid.

 

[Iriemon]

Re: It's Bush's Fault

So you agree with the Independent that it is the fault of GWB that the Iranians illegally crossed into Iraqi waters and took British Sailors hostage? What planet do you people come from? These so called "Iranian diplomats" were ****ing members of the revolutionary guard al-Quds division who were meeting with the insurgency. "Diplomats," my as$..

I must have missed the trial where that was proved.

 

[Trajan Octavian Titus]

Re: It's Bush's Fault

I must have missed the trial where that was proved.

What was the leader of the Al Quds division of the revolutionary guard doing in Iraq? And are you also trying to shift blame from the Mullahs to GWB for the current situation in which the revolutionary guards illegally crossed into Iraqi waters, and took U.K. sailors hostage? Is it your actual position that it's Bush's fault?