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23.04.02, 16:53
....It is hard to imagine what kind of sap, even in Washington, deliberately
listens to this stuff on a spring Saturday morning, whoever the president. But
anyone who did hang around for the address would have heard Bush describe Colin
Powell's mission as "productive" and mention (twice) "America's vision for
peace", whatever that might be. Two days earlier he had called Ariel Sharon "a
man of peace", a phrase so extraordinary it is necessary to stand back for a
moment and admire it. That's peace, presumably as in the 1914-18 peace and the
Portuguese man o'peace.
Earlier this month, Condoleezza Rice, Bush's national security adviser,
described the president as a man "having foreign policy successes all over the
place". Well, "all over the place" seems to get it right. The most original
characterisation of the president's Middle East performance I have seen has
come from David Turnley at smirkingchimp.com, who analysed the wording of the
president's recent instructions to the antagonists in the Middle East: "Enough
is enough!" "Withdraw without delay!" "I meant what I said!" "To his credit,"
wrote Turnley, "he uses language and tone that most of us can relate to.
Unfortunately, it's the language and tone people use when talking to their
dogs." ......
