Wednesday, January 5, 2011
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
What Soviet Leaders Could Teach Andrew Sullivan - '...Andrew could teach Pravda a thing or two about duping the masses with such gems of doublethink as: "Failure leads to new terms for success." Yet, failure it is, it being the President's policy, and disguising it as "new terms for success" is truly a downright bizarre way of dealing with reality. What next? "Hunger leads to new terms for gastronomic satisfaction?" Or maybe: "Blindness leads to new terms for optical clarity?" Failure is failure, and a responsible thinker, a rational government, would evaluate the conditions that brought about a failure in the foreign policy of the United States and recalibrate its diplomacy accordingly. Witness American policy rejecting the failed instrument of a unilateral Israeli abrogation of Jewish property rights in the West Bank and adjusting, however belatedly, but with a certain respect for reality...'
