Robert L. Jamieson, Jr. of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer says Signs of peace must be read, Mr. President. i.e. the President should listen to foreign policy statements written on yard signs and on placards carried by guys on stilts, such as:
"It's About LiberatIOn, Stupid -- OIL!" screamed a sign, which sought to set the record straight on why our country really wants to go to war.Jamieson also believes, sincerely, the old Cole Porter song that "Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong"
Public debate and an exchange of viewpoints are the hallmarks of democracy, yet many Americans and people elsewhere -- including France, Germany and Russia -- feel as if you are just giving them the royal White House brush-off.I don't know, Robert, but if you had the opportunity to relive the last hundred years in, say, France, Germany, Russia or the U.S.A, which country would YOU pick, and whose judgment would you trust?They all can't be dumb, misguided or uninformed, can they?
Must read: Josef Joffe, editor of the German weekly Die Zeit gave a lecture at Ben-Gurion University this week on the topic of "anti-Americanism, anti-Israelism and anti-Semitism". Ha'aretz has a summary.
Stinking Opinions Blog had a little fun with Photoshop yesterday.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at March 07, 2003 04:53 PMWould they carry a sign that says "Eat s**t. 500 billion flies can't be wrong"?
Posted by: malcolm on March 7, 2003 08:23 PMNot all Frenchmen are wrong, only most of them. Of course, that doesn't keep Jacques Chiraq and Dominique de Villepin (a man) from pretending to speak for all of them.
Posted by: Xrlq on March 8, 2003 01:37 PMmy favorites placards...'Who needs Oil, I ride the bus' and 'Bush is a Murdurer'
Posted by: tom on March 9, 2003 09:29 AM