mission accomplished
A few dozen Iranians threw shoes at posters of U.S. President George W. Bush in Tehran Friday morning, and the story makes CNN news.
I’ve never been very gung-ho for the war, and I know our dismal record of nation building, (but we seem to be pretty good at setting up USA-friendly dictatorships that oppose Communist dictatorships, so that’s something), but it kinda pissed me off when the original, live shoe throwing incident was covered in the lefty blogs I read.
Everyone of those blogs that chose to cover this as a slam against Bush, while missing Captain Obvious. The fact that this guy wasn’t instantly dragged outside and shot or hastily scheduled for a hanging at dawn is a sign of the huge steps forward this country has taken since Saddam’s reign. While a few dozen people who happened to wander by the protest and decided to join in is a pretty poor showing, at least the seed is there. Perhaps it will grow into something.
Regardless of your feelings for Bush, I have to say our President handled the incident with aplomb, letting the Iraq government take the reporter into custody and washing his hands of the whole thing.
(8:26 pm: Minor rewording of the last paragraph. I can’t believe that made it into print.)
Linoge Says :
Like I just posted over at my end of the ‘verse, President Bush is and has always been a gentleman, whether he is having shoes or baseless insults thrown at him. And whether we initially belonged in Iraq or not, the place is obviously better for our presence. Now it is just a question of how we are going to diminish/remove that presence…
2008-12-26 14:03 PermalinkStandard Mischief Says :
Oh and I can’t wait for Obama’s “surge” in Afghanistan. How will the press spin this when he’s been on the “right” side of opposition to the war from the beginning?
2008-12-30 22:11 Permalink