posted on June 28, 2001 04:41:59 AM new
No I am not saying the Pres knows what he's doing, but I'm certainly not saying he doesn't either. I was simply trying to balance the words here.
I know that the current President has his flaws, but I remembered threads here about Bush complete lack of a foreign policy before his initial trip to Europe. Posters here focused solely on his mistakes, i.e. "Africa is a country..." I was just trying to show that there are some people who felt for his initial visit to Europe, he did better than folks are saying.
Regarding Sharon, I cannot comment on his demeanor. All I think is he perhaps did not agree on the demands that the PM put on the table.
posted on June 28, 2001 08:04:06 AM new
The International Herald Tribune is strongly right wing. Its complements regarding the impression Bush made on his Europe trip represent a minority opinion. It reads like the Washington Times.
posted on June 28, 2001 09:38:37 AM new
duece, I don't think people are purposely trying to point out his mistakes all the time, it's just that he gives the impression that he wants all these world leaders, and himself, to be pals. Saying that Putin LOOKS like he has kind eyes, or a good soul might be true for him, but Putin has also ordered the killing of hundreds of people, as well as Sharon, etc.
Even if you took away Bush's speech blunders and all that, he still has no diplomacy (that I've seen anyway!).
posted on June 28, 2001 02:00:41 PM new
I wasn't fooled for a second Helen....Alfred wouldn't say anything that serious-sounding.
deuce, you made a good point in your last post:
"Regarding Sharon, I cannot comment on his demeanor. All I think is he perhaps did not agree on the demands that the PM put on the table."
Even if nobody could hear what was being said between them, Bush's body language says plenty. Clinton would have made sure his body language spoke for his beliefs....firm handshake, not much smiling (except for the camera), not much eye contact, etc. To me, Bush's body language says "Hey buddy, let's have a BBQ after this.....I'll buy!"
Maybe inside, he secretly acts like this to fool his opponents.........who knows for sure? (which is the sad part....)
posted on June 28, 2001 04:41:31 PM new
I have a problem with Pres. Bush's foreign policy being compared to his management skills of a baseball team. I am from the Chicago area and I know this much to be true. Trading Sammy Sosa to the Chicago White Sox for Harold Baines, Scott Fletcher and Wilson Alverez was an excellent decision for Texas. At the time, Sammy Sosa was young,immature, and not a well disciplined athelete. He missed the spring training deadline because his visa was held up due to a little problem involving Mr. Sosa hitting a female with a liquor bottle upside her head. Mr. Baines, on the other hand, was a proven leader and a dedicated athelete. Mr. G.W. Bush made the right decision.
I also believe his encouraging a friendship with Mr. Putin is a good idea. The "New" Soviet Union is still the #1 resource for Plutonium(? on the spelling) on the planet. For that reason alone, I really want Mr. Putin to like us.
I should also state that I did not vote for Pres. Bush. I will never vote for him. Unlike some Americans, I will not publicly trash a sitting President. Just like it took Mr. Sosa many years to acquire maturity and greatness I'm hoping Mr. Bush will acquire them too!
posted on June 28, 2001 04:52:05 PM new
Bush isn't the President. Cheney is. Bush is just for "looks". Alfred E. Neuman looks better and inspires a heck of a lot more confidence.
posted on June 28, 2001 06:23:24 PM new
Watched an interview with Castro on TV and they were kind of needling him about Bush.
He very defensivly said - "It's not my fault he's ignorant." and looked at the interviewer like - What do you want from me.? Seemed genuinely exasperated.
posted on June 28, 2001 07:09:43 PM new
Castro was speaking the truth when he said, right after the annointment, "a new administration of a
very irregular form has just been installed in the United States." He said, "we will carefully watch every step it makes and every word it pronounces."
He went on to say that he hoped his new adversary in the White House is not as stupid as he seems.
I'm sure that by now his hopes are down the drain.
posted on June 28, 2001 07:42:22 PM new
[i]"The "New" Soviet Union is still the #1 resource for Plutonium(? on the spelling)
on the planet. For that reason alone, I really want Mr. Putin to like us"[/i]
World class absurdity. What? You want him to like us while we use his plutonium to blow him to kingdom come?
posted on June 29, 2001 09:00:03 AM new
"World class absurdity. What? You want him to like us while we use his plutonium to blow him to kingdom come?"
No. I want him to like us so he doesn't sell his stockpile of Plutonium to other countries to be used against us and our allies. When the "old" Soviet Union crumbled, various newly independent countries didn't have a problem selling their stockpile of nuclear weapons to Iraq and other countries. This garage sale purchasing became very obvious during Desert Storm.
posted on June 29, 2001 12:02:45 PM new
While I am not well versed in the details of the SALT and SALT-II treaties, I am much more familiar with the science behind a missile defense program. It has often been said that for what this program is designed to do is comparable to shooting a bullet at a bullet and that our current technical abilities in that area are a joke. I see more sense in promoting the research of the science behind the objective than to try to actually build such a boondoggle.
Of course, someone pointed out that it was Clinton who started it. I do not have the exact confirmation on this notion, but I do recall several news shows on Clinton when he was being investigated to see if an Impeachment trial was warranted the stories were talking about the "deals" that Clinton had to make because of it. Of note, was the military. For their support, the military got many of the things that the administration had been holding back on -- and I don't mean pay and promotions either. The details of what these concessions were for the military's support for Clinton during this time, I do not recall hearing about advocating a missile defense program and ending the SALT-II treaty. However, I would not discount it either, seeing as how it was after the Impeachment Trial that this began to make headlines. Maybe some respectable personage on here will find the information to contradict me -- who knows?
As far as a real missile defense program goes, we already have the technology. First, there is the working X-Ray laser. This laser is energetic enough to pierce through the atmosphere and blast a satellite. Whispers of trial runs on this say that it works as advertised. Another "layer" of defense is the sub-orbital fighter/laser/missile launch platform. NASA is trying out this military solution right now. Advanced fighters could easily climb to the top of the atmosphere and launch weapons to destroy incoming ballistic missiles. And there are plenty of other workable solutions out there right now that we ought to be investing in instead of this hopeless waste of tax-payer dollars.
Does this excuse Clinton for being involved? No. If this Republican President is supposed to be better than Clinton was in the Common Sense department and the UnCorrupt Politician department, he isn't showing any of it to us.
I promise, I'm not trying to contradict anything you're saying, but I am very interested personally to know if you have any links to anything that mentions something about this: First, there is the working X-Ray laser. This laser is energetic enough to pierce through the atmosphere and blast a satellite. Whispers of trial runs on this say that it works as advertised.
