Schizo foreign policy
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice tells USA Today (h/t to War Room):
That's the crazy thing about the Bush administration. They're not just aggressive, warmongering assholes — they're schizo aggressive, warmongering assholes. One second they're all full-throated war cries: Grr, argh, let's kill all the Hezbos! With us or against us! Blargh.
Then, all of a sudden, it's back to replying on diplomatic pressure and world opinion. How can the same people who constantly belittle Europe (especially our newfound diplomatic buddy France), the United Nations and the value of international consensus (and actually invaded a country against that consensus) talk about relying on isolation to beat the terrorists? Do we have to kill them all or not?
Oy vey, I've got a headache. Mero, where are you? Please, help us figure out if these people are stupid, or just full of shit. Or both.
QUESTION: But if — say Hezbollah decides it does not choose to live up to this agreement and does not choose to disarm. What happens then?Huh? What the hell is she talking about? Wasn't Hezbollah pretty isolated from the rest of the world before the war, with the notable exceptions of Syria and Iran? Didn't this conflict actually make them less isolated, by increasing their popularity on the Arab street?
SECRETARY RICE: ...And then I think there will be a lot of pressure on Hezbollah to make a choice and if, in fact, they make the wrong choice, one would have to assume that there will be others who are willing to call Hezbollah what we are willing to call it, which is a terrorist organization. Europe does not, for instance, currently list Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. I would think that a refusal to live up to obligations that were undertaken by the Lebanese Government, clearly putting Hezbollah outside of the Lebanese Government consensus might trigger, for instance, something like that.
QUESTION: So it would isolate Hezbollah in the world?
SECRETARY RICE: Yes, in ways that — we consider them a terrorist organization now, but Hezbollah is a little different than Hamas. Hamas is listed as a terrorist organization by the Europeans; Hezbollah is not. I would think that this would be another further isolation for Hezbollah.
That's the crazy thing about the Bush administration. They're not just aggressive, warmongering assholes — they're schizo aggressive, warmongering assholes. One second they're all full-throated war cries: Grr, argh, let's kill all the Hezbos! With us or against us! Blargh.
Then, all of a sudden, it's back to replying on diplomatic pressure and world opinion. How can the same people who constantly belittle Europe (especially our newfound diplomatic buddy France), the United Nations and the value of international consensus (and actually invaded a country against that consensus) talk about relying on isolation to beat the terrorists? Do we have to kill them all or not?
Oy vey, I've got a headache. Mero, where are you? Please, help us figure out if these people are stupid, or just full of shit. Or both.
I'm so glad, too, that if Hezbollah, a terrorist organization on the U.S.'s shit list, doesn't disarm and live up to its agreements it is going to be put on somebody else's shit list. Sounds harsh, man.