uicksilver workshopYesterday, while speaking at the Israeli Knesset in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Jewish state, President Bush criticized those in the American government who would speak to our international adversaries as “appeasers,” a reference to the fatally flawed Munich negotiations of British statesman Neville Chamberlain in 1938. The reaction was instantaneous in Washington, and throughout the entire American mediascape – to include the Blogosphere – and it was almost universally accepted that Bush was indirectly poking Democratic Presidential contender, Barack Obama.
While Godwining the 2008 presidential race is ballsy enough, Bush took the Heisman of arrogant dumb-assery a day later when he traveled to meet with America’s staunchest friend and ally in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia. There he begged the king to increase oil production to ease the strain on the U.S. economy as we enter the annual, Summer-time months of peak consumption. The king, like any good friend and ally, served President Bush a nice steaming hot cup of STFU, and then negotiated U.S. aid and cooperation in Saudi Arabia’s fledgling nuclear program.
Appeaser? It takes one to know one.
Labels: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, George W. Bush
Neville Chamberlain.... one of his quote was "at ware there is no winner, just looser" maybe he should have took a some of that advice before starting that endless war,
USA went in Irak to take care of the threat... and the oil.... and now they have to go beg for the saudi to give them a "cheap price"....
israel has been at war for a long time...the USA always backup the jews instead of trying to find a common ground and make peace...
now they go in saudi.... no better for the threats, and will help them with the nuclear....
saudi can go either way, they don't need the world... the world need them for their oil...
who knows there plan if the get the bomb....
Unfortunately we're progressing toward a world where there are no non-nuclear players. In the past we could be assured that the threat of mutual destruction would keep the players in check. That is no longer the case. Of course, in a town where everyone has a gun, who dares pull the trigger first? Hopefully this transition to a post-super power world will be relatively smooth. I am cautiously optimistic that we will survive as more nations other than our own have to grapple with their own national responsibility to the world as global partners in a nuclear age. That's not to say there won't likely be disasters and tragedies along the way; there almost certainly will be. However, these are not the days of our youth when the specter of global nuclear holocaust hung over us all.