For the last five years, the (Vice) President and his minions have reminded us again and again that the old ways of thinking do not work, that the world is not the same since September 11th, and we cannot continue to think this way.
Yet, time and time again, we have seen the War on Terror bungled, with Bin Laden still at large, and Afghanistan awaiting the Return of the Taliban. Now Pakistan has cut a deal to ease out of the fight.
Add to that, a Civil War in Iraq, a wholly preventable disaster killing our children and theirs, costing billions, and acting as a rallying cry for fundementalists in the regions: a recruiting film, if you will.
Why, you might ask?
It's actually quite simple: Bush et al., for all their bluster about the "new world", are actually operating with an old paradigm. Cheney, Rummy, etc., all Cold Warriors, all evidentally incapable of thinking outside of that monolithic paradigm, vis a vis, Rocky vs. Ivan Drago. Superpowers facing off. Now, the finally said it.
Except that this is not Rocky vs. Ivan Drago. This is not the US vs. USSR. This is the US vs. an innumerable amount of discrete cells, operating all over the region and the world, and multiplying daily. We are the monolith.
The failure of this administration to understand this fact, all the while claiming its critics do not understand, is further proof that, not only is the administration out of touch with the world, it's out of touch with its own people.
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