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July 21, 2006

Bush Believes

by AltHippo @ 11:39 am. Filed under Iraq, Bush

Why have a foreign policy when a foreign belief system, buttressed by foreign hopes will do the trick: (WaPo, emphasis mine):

In the administration’s view, the new conflict is not just a crisis to be managed. It is also an opportunity to seriously degrade a big threat in the region, just as Bush believes he is doing in Iraq. Israel’s crippling of Hezbollah, officials also hope, would complete the work of building a functioning democracy in Lebanon and send a strong message to the Syrian and Iranian backers of Hezbollah.

“The president believes that unless you address the root causes of the violence that has afflicted the Middle East, you cannot forge a lasting peace,” said White House counselor Dan Bartlett. “He mourns the loss of every life. Yet out of this tragic development, he believes a moment of clarity has arrived.”

I have a fish that believes that swimming back and forth rapidly causes food to be dropped into the aquarium. I have another fish that believes there is a twin fish on the other side of the aquarium tank, and its only through his eternal vigilance that his twin is kept from invading his side of the glass.

My fish and Bush have at least this much in common: the philosophical view that I believe, therefore it is. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised in their shared outlook. Bush, you may recall, is on record saying that mankind and fish can peacefully coexist.

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95. Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)
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