More stuff gleefully stolen

[andrewducker]

"Maybe I'm missing something here. I mean, we're going to have kind of a nation-building corps from America? Absolutely not. It needs to be in our vital interest, the mission needs to be clear, and the exit strategy obvious. I'm not so sure the role of the United States is to go around the world and say this is the way it's got to be. I think the United States must be humble . . . in how we treat nations that are figuring out how to chart their own course." -- George W. Bush chiding Al Gore for the Clinton administration's actions in Somalia, 2000.

And now to bed...

Comments

[centralasian.livejournal.com]

thanks!

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Very cool. Of course, it's different when he's the one charting the course...

[kpollock.livejournal.com]

:-)

[guyinahat.livejournal.com]

Of course as he said in his interview to Frost on Sunday, it all changed with 9/11. Overt pro-active self defence is now the policy of the US, and will be for the forseeable future.

Of course there has always been a policy of pro-active self defence, but historically it was not so publicly explisit. A cynic might suggest that this sort of policy helped sow the seeds of 9/11, but it's academic now I guess.