June 2, 2003
Politics
Ironic promises.
Mark Kleiman thinks that all the criticism of Bush for not following through with Afghanistan and for avoiding establishment of democracy in Iraq is unfair. After all, Mark says, during his campaign
Bush criticized the Clinton Administration for engaging in "nation-building" and promised, if elected, not to waste American tax dollars on any such futility. Accordingly, he has made no real effort to build a workable nation in Afghanistan, and seemingly will extend the same practice of salutary neglect to the even graver nation-building task in Iraq.
Mark concludes,
Surely it can't be right to criticize a politician for keeping his promises.
Heh.
Posted by Frank at June 2, 2003 7:56 PMComments
Haha.
But then, Bush has, since his campaign promises, made contradictory promises to rebuild the nations we have destroyed. So, either way, he's still a liar.
Posted by: madprophet at June 4, 2003 5:29 AM