The Wobblies
My friends on both the left and right who think the Bush administration is getting lost in the Middle East quagmire will probably like this OpinionJournal piece by Lady Thatcher. Her most chilling line bears repeating:
At the rate at which nuclear, chemical and biological weaponry and missile technology have been proliferating we must expect that at some point these weapons will be used.This is quite simply the greatest challenge of our times. We must rise to it.
We must rise to it. The simple eloquence of which greatness is made. It invokes one of my favorite lines by Ronald Reagan: there are no easy answers, but there are simple ones.
The way out of a quagmire is simple: chart a course, follow it, and do what it takes to get through. It's not "sophisticated" to dwell on why this is so much work, why it's easier said than done, why it might not work. It's dithering. Or, worse, kvetching.
I'm one of those that feels that the Bush administration has lost its way.
Not because they have no answers, not because they have been uninvolved. But when Bush speaks of Powell going back to the Mideast to try to "broker" a deal with Arafat, well, it just is a huge disappointment again. It is a reminder that Bush has put aside his Doctrine in order to do what Peggy Noonan described as "floating along waiting for whatever raft comes along next."
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