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Thursday, June 26, 2003
posted by gbarto at 10:26 AM:
William Saletan has a very sharp write-up on what's wrong with Howard Dean's foreign policy approach - its disdain for America and its conviction that Howard knows all. Saletan focuses on the problems of the second but I'd say the first is also pretty awful. Democrats like Dean - members of the Republic, Not an Empire set - have an awful lot in common with Pitchfork Pat, the first being severe delusion. US power is not going to evaporate, dissipate or cease to matter simply because someone doesn't want to use it. In a way, 9/11 was the wake-up call to Bush that his hope for US humility in foreign policy was misguided: It is the job of the big kids to look after the little kids, even the little snot-nosed Gallic ones, in just about every social arrangement to come down the pike, and we are quite properly stuck as leader of the free world and preeminent power in the world, a position that our basic humanity will only let us shirk so long, even without 9/11s. Dean's naïveté shows that as good as he sounds, he's not ready for prime time. Under our system, you can't become head of government without becoming head of state, and for a very essential state at that.* * *
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