Never Seen Law And Order
I love the old Saturday Night Live sketch, where the clue-free reporters ask Norman Schwartzkopf to divulge the times, places, and units involved in upcoming attacks, as the General does a slow burn at their bone-headitude.
I'm having a flashback. Bush in Europe: No attack on Iran planned, but we could do it if we had to:
"This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. Having said that, all options are on the table," Bush said...Bush has walked a careful line between supporting an approach led by European nations to persuade Iran to scrap its uranium enrichment program in exchange for technological, financial and political support without talking about the U.S. reservations about that strategy.
"It's in our interests for them not to have a nuclear weapon," Bush said in a news conference with European Union leaders.
The funny part?
This issue shows, as if any more demonstration were needed, that the left has no concept of military history, or of diplomacy more complex than that of Jimmy Carter.
Not only have they never read The Prince, they haven't watched Law And Order.
Steve Soto at Left Coaster:
So, in the Bush dictionary this means:
a) We are not getting ready to attack Iran; we are ready now to attack Iran;
b) It won’t be us that attacks Iran, it will be the Israelis;
c) I’ve blown stuff out my ass before, so who cares what you think?
Er...yeah? And...?
Like playing good-cop, bad-cop with the mullahs is a bad thing?
Kevin Drum:
I don't get it. If all options are on the table, why is the notion that we might attack Iran ridiculous?
To anyone paying attention? It's not. It's not supposed to be. The mullahs are supposed to know that.
Frederick Maryland (not to be confused with Johnny Knoxville):
Or, to put it another way: "All options are on the table, including the simply ridiculous one."
I'm wondering - what do these people have against disinforming, teasing or manipulating a terror-supporting, nuke-building nation that has murdered tens of thousand people?
Posted by Mitch at
February 23, 2005 05:31 AM
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Forget TV, these people have obviously never been involved in serious negotiations with a party that is being difficult. I do that sort of thing frequently in my day job. If the straightforward approach doesn't get results, then it's time for another approach. Recently my company had to give a big customer the impression that we would walk away from their business if they didn't give us what we wanted. We got 90-95% of what we wanted. Had this customer not believed that we were prepared to do something that drastic, we would have had a much worse deal.
I now know where so many of those special-ed grads end up.
Posted by: Gregg the obscure at February 23, 2005 07:06 AMThis and several other continuations of your posts are giving me a 404.
Posted by: Dave Vanderwerf at February 24, 2005 09:35 AM