He also sees, as do a number of us, for disparate reasons, stupidity and misjudgement run rampant in Yankee policy....However, before Pepe salivates at the prospect of a kindred spirit, let it be noted that it is the easygoing kinder gentler "let's try to be nuanced and sophisticated and give 'em all a chance" kinda policy that sticks in Spengler's craw as particularly Gumpish. Not that the aristos in the Versailles of the Gulf don't have a soft spot for their wayward son.
Surely this comes as no surprise to most of you, but this "Spengler" is a pseudonym. Who he really is has not been made public over his years of writing in the "Asia Times", based in Singapore.
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
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The post has this on conservatives breaking rank with the administration.
What will it take to suppress Iran and its supporters in Lebanon and Iraq? The West should prepare itself for a war that will be prolonged and merciless.
Another us-led war led by the same clowns that turned a dictatorship into anarchy ? I can already hear the freedom bells ringing.
"What they are doing on North Korea or Iran is what [Sen. John F.] Kerry would do, what a normal middle-of-the-road president would do," he said. "This administration prided itself on molding history, not just reacting to events. Its a normal foreign policy right now. It's the triumph of Kerryism."
Ouch! This really hurts, more so because it does actually have a kernel of truth. But this is what happens after being nibbled to death by the nattering nabobs of negativism...
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