Wednesday, March 23, 2005
You Can't Have It Both Ways
David Frum, in his blog at NRO, quotes an article from the Italian newspaper Il Foglio. This paragraph caught my eye. Even if you change the adjectival 'European' to 'American', it still rings true.
The European left has long given lip service to the international support of democracy. And yet, when George Bush adopted this very policy as his own after 9/11, the leaders of the European left began to fret about stability, sovereignty, and the supreme right of local despots to wield power free from foreign interference. After all those years of fulminating against Henry Kissinger, the European left overnight became more Kissingerian than Kissinger himself had ever been.... Is this outcome not ironic? Is it not embarrassing?
The European left has long given lip service to the international support of democracy. And yet, when George Bush adopted this very policy as his own after 9/11, the leaders of the European left began to fret about stability, sovereignty, and the supreme right of local despots to wield power free from foreign interference. After all those years of fulminating against Henry Kissinger, the European left overnight became more Kissingerian than Kissinger himself had ever been.... Is this outcome not ironic? Is it not embarrassing?
# posted by mds : 9:12 AM
