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Cheney’s the cigarette smoking man!
By Ned | April 18, 2008
It’s tempting to say that the White House’s lack of any sort of comprehensive plan for combating terrorism in Pakistan has something to do with the fact that instead of fighting terrorism where it actually exists, America decided to distract itself by inventing a terrorism crisis in a country (Iraq) where it previously hadn’t been a problem. Tempting, but probably inaccurate. Because if there’s one constant in the Bush administration’s foreign policy, it’s their inability to come up with a comprehensive plan for anything.
Did anyone else used to really love The X-Files? That show basically defined my late-elementary school and middle school years. Remember watching that show through its first half and being amazed at how meticulously well-constructed the show’s mythology was? Remember watching the second half and thinking, “Wait a minute, what the hell? They’re just making this shit up as they go along. And there’s no way this is going to get wrapped up in any coherent way.”
The Bush administration is the second half of The X-Files. Not only because everything sucks all of a sudden, and there’s clearly no actual rhyme or reason, but also because its existence validates a lot of that post-Watergate anti-government paranoia that used to get relegated to late-night talk radio.
Topics: International Politics, Terrorism, The White House |