I cant really express adequately what an embarrassment Maureen Dowd is to the New York Times op-ed page and to the left. If anyone is still laboring under any delusions, Dowd emphatically does not speak for any part of the left. She is a fool, a jester, a marionette. She thinks she is clever. She is not.
The situation in Pakistan is complex. It has been complex for the last thirty years. It might be cute to criticize the president for being friendly with a dictator, and it certainly offers opportunity for schadenfreude for those that never bought into Bush’s ‘Freedom Agenda’. So, Bush’s rhetoric turned out to be bankrupt. Is that really such a big surprise? The evidence was already in. Elections in Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia all resulted in anti-American victories. Perhaps we shouldn’t be pushing Bush to continue a fatally flawed policy?
The bottom line, and something MoDo doesn’t understand at all, is that events in Pakistan are not remotely funny. Whether we should continue to supply aid to Pakistan or we should withdraw that support is not a decision to be made by the faint of heart, nor by anyone without access to the best intelligence our agencies can provide.
Bush’s failure might seem funny, but it is no laughing matter. If I can turn the tables on the villagers: Maureen Dowd is not a serious person.
