Keith Olbermann is over the top (and understandably so) whenever he takes aim at George W. Bush, and his criticism of Bush for responding to a "what's the worst-case scenario?" question by saying "they'll attack us" is unfair -- Bush's reply to this, if not to much else, was eminently reasonable. But there's something surreal about what happens whenever Bush abandons his campaign of profligate, Machiavellan mendacity and actually tries to address the citizenry from the heart -- and I'm certain Bush honestly believes that telling the country he was giving up golf was a warm and brilliant stroke -- because that's when it hits home that America actually elected someone this dumb to the presidency. The man looks like a kid with really bad ADHD who decided to skip his Ritalin one morning and smoke a three-ounce ball of hash instead.
Kinda makes you not want to stand in line in public for too long, eh?
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Ah. A bloodless coup.
Posted by: Warren | May 15, 2008 7:40 PM
The more I think about it, I think the criticism about the response to the "worst case scenario" is incorrect. When such a question is asked, there should be some sort of rational connection between the postulate and the worst case scenario.
For instance, if I ask, "what's the worst case scenario for wearing shorts in winter?", and the answer is "The Soviets launch nuclear armageddon," well, yes, that's a "worst case scenario", but it is unrelated to the premise.
Similarly, when the question is, if we pull out of Iraq, what's the worst case scenario, the result ought to be a reasonable consequence of the premise. And a terrorist attack is simply not a reasonable consequence. As we know, the Iraqis had nothing to do with al Qaeda. Furthermore, if we leave the area, we'll quit pissing off the Muslims that are there. (More reasons could easily be generated.)
So, I really don't think that this particular "worst case scenario" means diddly-squat, and criticism of Bush for it is right on the money.
Posted by: Ahcuah | May 15, 2008 7:52 PM
Warren wins this thread.
Posted by: Coturnix | May 15, 2008 7:53 PM