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George’s game: I was giving

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George’s game
: I was giving George Bush the benefit of the doubt, thinking that he and his team were strategists. But look where we are now:

We’re in a political and diplomatic (remember this word, bloggers) quagmire in Iraq. Now we have to wait — how long? a year? — until a gun is found with sufficient smoke to choke the objections of the world and meanwhile, the economy and the Bush presidency slide and slide more.

In North Korea, Bush has ignored the most basic lesson of parenthood that anyone learns when managing a 3-year-old: Be consistent and do what you say you’re going to do. Or else you lose all your authority.

He’s no strategist, I fear.

Chess is not his game.

Checkers is.

2 responses to “George’s game: I was giving”

  1. Matt Welch Avatar
    Matt Welch

    Re: Iraq — What if he *has* the evidence already, but is in fact low-balling expectations in advance of yet another high hard one? Remember, he leaked enough unilateralist ominosity that Congress & the United Nations considered it a *victory* to be able to authorize what Bush had wanted all along. Twelve months ago, no one was talking seriously about weapons inspections, yet now the non-hawks swear by them … remember that last summer, before he achieved the unachievalbe — namely, getting the world to successfully pressure Saddam into accepting weapons inspections — everyone was talking about how scatter-brained and undisciplined the White House suddenly had become on Iraq. On Iraq at least, I’d rate his chess-to-checkers ratio as being pretty damned Russian.
    Unless, of course, there *is* no smoking gun, and/or he’s bluffing.

  2. Jeff Jarvis Avatar
    Jeff Jarvis

    Matt: I hope you’re right. I thought you were. But I’ve been starting to doubt. Mefears he has painted himself into a couple of corners.

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