On Thu, 09 Jan 2003 19:40:07 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) wrote:
> Isn't there a "human rights for dummies" which somebody can give to W ? > But would this really help ... see for yourself: > http://ricsi.priv.at/bushbook.jpg I laughed at loud when I saw this! Never noticed the first time I saw this photo in the news. Of course, old W makes polictical milelage out of his intellectual challenges. At a function with William F. Buckley, the erudite conservative writer, Bush said: "Yes, Mr. Buckley and I have some things in common. We both went to Yale. While he was there he wrote a book. And I read one." Bush did manage to graduate from Yale and later got a MBA from Harvard, so he may not be as stupid as he seems at times. He's obvously dsylexic and struggles with word order and formation when he ad libs--but he's not stupid. Also he's an idealist, doing his level best to defend the United States against a very real threat and danger. But he's not seeing the whole picture accurately. Not seeing the whole picture accurately is the great, naive failure of Americans. And I say that as a patriotic American who wants his country to live up to its ideals. The burden of American economic might and military power is troublesome. It would be easier to be Canadian or Austrian or Finnish and not be expected to act on the world stage. Yet if North Korea or Iraq built an atom bomb and either used it to blackmail Europe or Japan or Austrailia or sold it to terrorists who want to blow up Jakarta the world would demand to know how come we didn't do something about it. I'm not saying that America should invade anyone. But, we do have legitimate concerns that the world expects us to do something about because nobody else can. America needs to grow up, learn more about the world and get smarter about how to handle the responsibilities that our global strength imposes on us. ���-�a Sam Ewalt Croswell, Michigan, USA -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
