I added you as a friend after reading your posts to [info]angel80.
I thought as much :-)
So what the interview really shows is not that the president is admitting defeat but that he is entirely out of touch both with current events and with history.
I rather suspect it was the press responding in kind... After all, if he's going to cast aspersions that "in reality" the media caused the US to lose the war in Viet Nam and "in reality" the media is causing the US to lose in the war in Iraq "just like Tet", the media is going to respond with a big "O RLY?".
Like Hannah Arendt's great study of the Pentagon Papers which I referred to many times in this journal at the start of the invasion, the extraordinary thing is that there seems to be a hefty section of the right wing establishment who believe they can win a foreign war by manipulating domestic public opinion.
(Mind you there's probably a section of the domestic left that thinks that can cause the invading forces to lose by the same strategy).
While I think he is in fact fairly intelligent, he has very strong, simple ideas formed by staying within a very small circle of extreme right wing thought.
I have been criticised for suggesting in the past that he's not as dumb as he makes out, just suffering from mental tunnel-vision.
Although there is evidence that George Bush really does live in a parallel reality. Where February has 30 days and half of 412 is 248.
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Re: US admits loss
Date: 2006-10-20 10:43 pm (UTC)I thought as much :-)
So what the interview really shows is not that the president is admitting defeat but that he is entirely out of touch both with current events and with history.
I rather suspect it was the press responding in kind... After all, if he's going to cast aspersions that "in reality" the media caused the US to lose the war in Viet Nam and "in reality" the media is causing the US to lose in the war in Iraq "just like Tet", the media is going to respond with a big "O RLY?".
Like Hannah Arendt's great study of the Pentagon Papers which I referred to many times in this journal at the start of the invasion, the extraordinary thing is that there seems to be a hefty section of the right wing establishment who believe they can win a foreign war by manipulating domestic public opinion.
(Mind you there's probably a section of the domestic left that thinks that can cause the invading forces to lose by the same strategy).
While I think he is in fact fairly intelligent, he has very strong, simple ideas formed by staying within a very small circle of extreme right wing thought.
I have been criticised for suggesting in the past that he's not as dumb as he makes out, just suffering from mental tunnel-vision.
Although there is evidence that George Bush really does live in a parallel reality. Where February has 30 days and half of 412 is 248.
http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2006/10/the_bush_admini.html