Digby: "the Dick Cheney fifth-grade schoolyard school of foreign policy"

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Trash Talkin' With The Terrorists
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/trash-talkin-with-terrorists-by-digby.html
by digby

I've always wondered why Chris Matthews has Kathleen Parker on his syndicated week-end show so often. She's an attractive woman, but she has the personality of a doorknob and makes deadly boring television.
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Parker is parroting the Dick Cheney fifth grade schoolyard school of foreign policy. The entire world rests on whether the United States out-trash-talks the enemies of our nation, who are lurking everywhere, throwing rhetorical zingers about our national manhood. Failure on the ground is meaningless in any substantial sense. What matters is if we keep swaggering around like we know what we are doing even when its patently obvious that we don't.

The problem, you see, is that up until now they haven't taken us seriously. Only by repeatedly making threats, giving bellicose speeches and invading countries willy nilly will they realize that we can't be defeated. To the Schoolyad School, Ahmadinejad is, therefore, a very serious foe even though he's actually a sort of circus clown who doesn't wield any real power. He is a first class insult artist. Indeed, Parker's instinct to capitulate to his taunts by banning women from the military is testament to how formidable he is to these people. One off-hand comment about British manhood and she starts shrieking like a ninny that he's right.

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