Ed, At 10:31 18/01/03 -0500, you wrote: >From a review by Rex Murphy of Frum's book in today's Globe and Mail: > >"For those who had doubts on one cardinal matter, Frum offers unqualified >assurance: Bush is the boss. He is not in thrall to the greater minds and >powerful personalities surrounding him, either Donald Rumsfeld or Colin >Powell or Dick Cheney. The Right Man,again surprising from such a source, is >a hymn for heart over mind. I am not sure this portrait will comfort anybody >who has watched the unfurling of the war on terror, the innovations in >foreign policy, not least the doctrine of pre-emptive attack as developments >fraught with peril and anxiety for the world. The anti-Bush zealots might >actually take more comfort from their caricature of the simpleton-puppet. >Under that view there is always the hope the the White House Darth Vaders, >Rumsfeld and Cheney, or the obvious adults, Powell and Condoleezza Rice, >might rein the child in. The thought that Bush is in real control, that he >is the principal in these deep-ranging and potentially earth-shattering >policies, offers them less of a mattress for hope."
M'mm . . . however, if I'm judge of anybody at all, then Bush is as thick as two short planks. If he's in real control it's because he's doing exactly what Daddy is telling him. But, as I mentioned to Bill, time will tell, but I think this administration is the strangest ever. Total neglect of a dangerous North Korea with nuclear weapons and long range ballistic missiles which they occasionally lob into the sea over the top of Japan; almost total neglect of the economy except for a feeble Keynesian fillip; total obsession with Iraq. This administration is weird. There's too much that is hidden. It just doesn't make sense as we see it. Keith ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Keith Hudson, General Editor, Handlo Music, http://www.handlo.com 6 Upper Camden Place, Bath BA1 5HX, England Tel: +44 1225 312622; Fax: +44 1225 447727; mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
