Another successful White House tantrum p m carpenter's commentary

[Demeter]

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Another successful White House tantrum


... the Bush administration's unerring approach to all things managerial: It's right, you're wrong, and everything can go to hell until everyone else cries "uncle," no matter how harmful this childish game might be to all parties concerned....Now, anytime the descriptive term "bizarre" pops up in national or international news coverage, you just know the White House is behind it full throttle. And sure enough, Wolfie's final exit strategy, it turned out, wasn't Wolfie's at all. It was the White House's from start to finish...On a dime it went from begging the bank board not to oust Wolfowitz to daring it to do so -- and by splashing, not submersing, all the substantiated facts unfavorable to him in the termination document. And that bizarre U-turn forced this response, said a bank official close to the negotiations: "It’s going to be difficult for the board to drop its charges against him, but they’re going to have to do it if they want to resolve this."


But that doesn't quite add up, does it? Why, one might ask, would the bank "have to" commit such a phony, insincere act -- that is, whitewash all those substantiated facts -- just to properly rid itself of its hapless chief executive?


Why? Because the White House was correctly counting on the bank to be the adult....And that was what should have been the lead story -- the one that framed and defined the fiasco. Childish bullying and brinkmanship.


Think about it. The White House was willing to risk what very little it had in the way of amicable relations with world leaders just to defend its boy at the bank. It was willing to watch the thorniest issues of world poverty become monumentally thornier, just to avoid any seeming admission that it had placed a corrupt idiot at the helm. It was, in short, willing to worsen the lives of billions, just to protect one man -- its man....The bank's staff association, thoroughly incensed over the board's cave-in, released this statement: "Welcome though it is, the president’s resignation is not acceptable under the present arrangement," which "completely undermines the principles of good governance and the principles that the staff fight to uphold."

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Is this surprising to anyone? It is the way they always operate.

[izzie]

2. Odd how you can bring a country to the edge when you are

sure your right and God gave you the OK. Will not be the first time that has been done. On Gods orders we seem to have a lot of people who are right and have sent people to death to be sure you understand they are right. And to make it clearer God is working both sides of this killing field.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Radical Religionists, as opposed to radical secularists(Newt Gingrich's term)

throughout history, have been the ones who have been behind the genocides, the holocausts, the Crusades, the Inquisitions, the witch-burnings and auto-de-fes.
Those who feel their god is the right god seem to be all to willing to murder anyone who does not share their beliefs.
I have had a difficult time finding atrocities that can be attributed the radical secularists.