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Why we were wrong part 2: The longing for a strong man.

« H E Eternal Hope :: email
posted Monday, 24 October 2005
Niall Ferguson writes a solid journalistic column that gives a good overview and prognostication of the Plamegate scandal. But then, he makes a shocking statement that illustrates perfectly the theme that we are talking about:

So, who will the American Hadrian be? I have no idea, but I hope it will be John McCain. Once the impending political hurricane has passed, the United States will need someone of his caliber to consolidate its empire -- and clean up the messes left by the circuses at home.

That is exactly the problem that is plaguing our society -- the longing for a strong man who will take us to the promised land. That is why we got Bush in the first place -- too many people wanted to elect someone who was a strong man, rather than a person who could inspire us to vote our hopes and not our fears. And that is why we got Bush again -- people wanted a strong man who could protect them against the evil terrorists. So, when Mr. Ferguson proposes a strong man to clean up the mess that George Bush made, sorry, I'm not buying.

The problem with people like McCain, Guliani, and Clinton is that they essentially offer nothing new to the table on Iraq. All three of them would offer the same old cut-and-dried solutions that haven't worked. All three of them would stay in Iraq until all the Iraqi troops are trained, which, by the current pace, would take another 200 years of you consider that being able to fight on your own without backup.

Electing one of these three could suggest that we are not still in the height of the American Empire but rather in its decline and fall. One definition of insanity is where you try the same failed plan over and over again, and expecting different results. If we elect one of those three and not someone like Russ Feingold or Wes Clark, who each have fresh ideas for the table, then I wonder about our country's collective sanity.

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