Remember how the election was going to change everything, how our foreign policy was going to undergo a sea-change, and everyone was going to love us again? Remember? Well, first off, about that little war thing in Iraq. . .
Jon Stewart week here, blame this blog for that.
Ok, well, so we have zero substantive change on Iraq policy. Still, with the specter of George W. Bush out of the White House, our standing with other countries can only improve, regardless of that whole war thing. Right? We’re not going to be the swaggering lone superpower, shooting from the hip and into our foot, pissing off our allies. . .
Unless that ally is Great Britain. After all, what better way to cement the special relationship between our countries than to give a visiting head of state a stack of DVDs that don’t even have the right region code to play in the UK, giving back a bust of Churchill they gave us, and going out of their way to piss all over the “special relationship”.
Ok, it’s a new White House, some gaffes are possible as people learn the ropes. But this kind of display of dismissive arrogance on the part of our government implies stupidity on a epic scale of Bush’s “we have to destroy capitalism in order to save it,” or a deliberate calculation to sever our ties with the UK. Either possibility is shameful.
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michelle · March 13, 2009 at 3:04 pm
I wish I could say I was shocked that our Dictator, um, I mean President was a disgrace and complete embarrassment to the country, but I’m not. I’m afraid we’re going to look back on the first 6 months of this devastatingly long administration as “the good days”.
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