Re: For Grumman

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 22:17:34 -0700, Alan Street
<agstreet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


>
>I'm real big on symbolism. If Bush is willing to risk the lives of his
>daughters in combat, I, and the rest of the country, might start to
>think he's sincere about his belief in a "noble cause."

Alan, you know I'm already outed as a flaming halfwit gungrabbing
lefty, so this might sound inconsistent. As much as I agree that the
American and even the world public would have been compelled to accept
Bush's sincerity and commitment to the cause if his family had leapt
into the fray, it's highly unlikely the people charged with the
security of the President and his influence on world matters would
have allowed it.

Allowing the presidential family members to go to war would make the
POTUS vulnerable to all kinds of second guessing and a whole other
flavour of criticism. At least while he keeps the war at arm's length
the President will only be seen as objectively cold-hearted, rightly
or wrongly. Certainly he can't be accused of putting his family's own
safety first in the decisions that are made with respect to the war.
Sometimes folks in positions of power are just gonna be damned if they
do and damned if they don't.

JF

"What embitters the world is not excess of criticism,
but an absence of self-criticism." - G.K.Chesterton
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