Friday, October 07, 2005
White House Still Fighting Cold War
Administration knows little about communism or Arab nationalism. Zero. None.
Here's an excerpt from a White House Press Conference (Oct 6), that I found on the Editor and Publisher web site. This is disturbing because it shows how out of touch these guys are about not just the present situation, but about 20th Century history (I think Scott McClellon might have read Paul Johnson's Modern Times too often). They see Arab nationalism as a monlithic movement just as they used to see Communism as a centrally driven wedge ever-hammering at the west. That's probably because the neo-con thinkers are a bunch of thinly galvanized ex-Trotskyites.
Sometimes I wonder of Scott McClellan ever has had a spontaneous moment in his life. If I was casting a movie about the Puritans in New England, I'd definitely cast Scott as one of those preachers out looking for witches.
Q But again, does he really believe that they could take over western
countries like Spain and France?
MR. McCLELLAN: That's what their strategy -- go back and look at what
the President said in his remarks, because he clearly spelled out
what their strategy is. I'm not sure that he characterized it the
same way as you just did.
Q Does he think that's realistic?
MR. McCLELLAN: Look at his remarks. They very much have a strategy --
Q He warned of a radical Islamic empire stretching from Spain to
Indonesia.
MR. McCLELLAN: -- much like the strategy of communism to dominate and
intimidate the world.
Here's an excerpt from a White House Press Conference (Oct 6), that I found on the Editor and Publisher web site. This is disturbing because it shows how out of touch these guys are about not just the present situation, but about 20th Century history (I think Scott McClellon might have read Paul Johnson's Modern Times too often). They see Arab nationalism as a monlithic movement just as they used to see Communism as a centrally driven wedge ever-hammering at the west. That's probably because the neo-con thinkers are a bunch of thinly galvanized ex-Trotskyites.
Sometimes I wonder of Scott McClellan ever has had a spontaneous moment in his life. If I was casting a movie about the Puritans in New England, I'd definitely cast Scott as one of those preachers out looking for witches.
Q But again, does he really believe that they could take over western
countries like Spain and France?
MR. McCLELLAN: That's what their strategy -- go back and look at what
the President said in his remarks, because he clearly spelled out
what their strategy is. I'm not sure that he characterized it the
same way as you just did.
Q Does he think that's realistic?
MR. McCLELLAN: Look at his remarks. They very much have a strategy --
Q He warned of a radical Islamic empire stretching from Spain to
Indonesia.
MR. McCLELLAN: -- much like the strategy of communism to dominate and
intimidate the world.
