Hullabaloo takes eternal optimist
Thomas Friedman to task:
It?s too late to be wondering whether this amateur hour of a foreign policy team is capable of handling so many crises? at the same time, seeing as they ?don?t even like to travel.? And the fact that they ?spend so much time infighting over policy? is a direct result of not having a real President who guides policy, but one who is guided by whomever is in favor or has his ear at a given time.
It is too late to be wondering whether a party that would spend 100 million dollars to install a callow, empty suit like George W. Bush as President of the United States purely because he had ?brand name recognition? is serious enough and smart enough to be leading this country into war. It certainly appears that the rest of the world is very, very nervous about the caliber of our leadership.
It?s too late to be asking the Bush team to ?shape up, start dialing down the attitude, start selling this war on the truth, give us a budget that prepares the nation for war abroad not a party at home, and start doing everything possible to create a global context where we can confront Saddam without the world applauding him.?