Daniel W. Drezner has broken our heart -- just as Andrew Sullivan did, not too long ago -- abandoning what we had understood to be our mutual world view re the War on Terror (Your heart's been broken lots of times -- ed. Yah, so?). These two great mind feeders seem to have tossed us over the side midstream like so much disposable jetsom. We've got the political conviction and intellectual rigor to swim to the other bank, but we miss their reassuring presence. "So I'm voting for Kerry," declares Drezner:
"I still have doubts about Kerry. Massive, Herculean doubts. His plan to internationalize the Iraq conflict is a pipe dream," writes Drez, all the while announcing for Kerry with an astonishingly lame argument (We LOVE this guy -- a brilliant economic thinker who has blown the anti-outsourcing argument to smithereens -- but what has he been drinking, fergossake?):
However, here's the one thing I am confident about -- a Kerry administration is likely to recognize, once the multilateral diplomacy fails, that it will actually have to come up with a viable alternative.
As Drezner commenter Mark Buehner notes:
What leads you to that conclusion? The Clinton team's answer was to walk away and ignore the problems when diplomacy failed. What evidence in the world is there that Kerry won't pull the troops out ASAP and bury the 'stick' in the backyard? That would be precisely what his record would indicate.
Speaking of accountability, why doesnt anyone want to hold Kerry accountable for a lifetime of being a kneejerk peacenick? [the Kerry-censored "Stolen Honor" comes to mind]. Particularly 20 years in the senate with a trackrecord of appeasement broken only occasionally by political expediency? I don't know what's scarier, a dove in the White House, or a dove in the White House who might decide to act tough based on poll numbers. Carter or LBJ? Either way Kerry is a danger.
Then there's Teresa. According to Inside-the-Beltway buzz, "social Washington is salivating at the idea of a revitalized White House, with a multilingual, art-collecting, wine-drinking, garden-loving billionairess who calls herself "cheeky" and "sexy" running the salon". Isn't that sweet?:
"What we're hungry for," said former Clinton administration official Ann Pincus, "is someone who's engaged" . . . The Bushes have been virtually incognito for the last four years. Harpers Bazaar recently referred to the first lady's style as "Marian the Librarian."
"Laura is a gracious person, but she's been relegated to being a pretty picture," noted publishing heiress Marie Ridder. "Whereas John Kerry does listen to Teresa, who has a powerful voice."
Nice to know the Kerry folk, should they win the Oval Office, will be able to keep up the fiddling while Rome burns.
Who would have thought someone like Teresa Heinz would come along so soon and make us all pine for the (relatively speaking) class and mental stability of Hillary? You'd think decades would be needed to top the levels of crassness set by Hillary, but, no, once again the Democratic party manages to outdo itself.
Myria
Posted by: Myria | October 23, 2004 at 09:42 AM