Bush at the UN -

Bush at the UN - What a performance.

I liked the way Lileks put it:

It’s of a piece with the administration’s behavior since 9/11: Let all the carpers and obstructionists gather on the tip of the thinnest branch, then show up with a saw and announce they have five minutes to come hug the trunk, which incidentally is covered with sap and stinging ants. It was sheer malicious brilliance to cast the entire case in terms of UN resolutions, because it mean the UN had to chose: either those resolutions mean something, or the UN means nothing. Why, it's almost as if the UN painted itself into a corner - and woke up to find this rude simple cowboy holding the brush. How the hell did he do that?

I love the way Bush has the Reagan thing down - let everyone think you're an idiot, while you maneuver behind their hubris and beat them before they know they've been had.

Posted by Mitch at September 13, 2002 10:07 AM