-> On 25 Apr 09  18:46:00, Bob Klahn got back to Dan Ceppa 
-> Re: US foreign policy

 DC> He needed to to prevent his neighbors from knowing how
 DC> weakened he had become.

 BK> And that is the point most peopel don't know about.

Going back to the previous message's reference of _Connections_!  What 
happens currently does not happen in a vacuum.  Other events have a 
subtle, yet inexorable push that shapes the present and the future.  
 
 BK>> Then Bush gave Saddam 2 weeks to leave the country. I wondered,

 DC> I thought that was a silly thing to do.  But, it enforced
 DC> W's need to sound as if he was the western sheriff
 DC> confronting Big Black Bart.

 BK> Yep. The cowboy running wild. Though I doubt most cowboys were
 BK> that bad at it.

Maureen Dowd's book has a cartoon of W dressed up in western garb.  Too 
bad there weren't similar cartoons introducing each chapter!  

 BK> ...
 
 DC> media in line.  The media dropped the ball and never
 DC> questioned W's reasons for the war.  Something like 97% of
 DC> the guest commentary was pro-war.  LBJ and Nixon would have
 DC> been envious.

 BK> The NY Time published an apology for their part in it.

This country needs better dialoguing, especially on something as large 
and destructive as a war.  The demise of newspapers doesn't bode well.  
Worse is the fact that in the major market places, more and more of 
the media is owned by fewer and fewer people.  



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