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Doug, you mentioned that President Bush made some type of pledge to conduct foreign policy with "humility". Do you have a reference for this remark? Was it a State of the Union? Just curious.
Posted on August 15, 2007 9:30 AM
GOV. GEORGE W. BUSH: If we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us; if we're a humble nation, but strong, they'll welcome us. And our nation stands alone right now in the world in terms of power, and that's why we've got to be humble, and yet project strength in a way that promotes freedom.
(Presidential candidates debate, Oct. 12, 2000)
Posted on August 15, 2007 10:36 AM
Thank you, Doug. Your scholarship amazes. (coming to you from the Savage, non-sarcastically!!!!!)
Posted on August 15, 2007 10:49 AM
...although I would expect even the most humble man on the block to maybe forget his humility a little bit when twenty lunatics from foreign countries bomb your largest city killing 3000 of your countrymen, but, hey, that's just my opinion.
Posted on August 15, 2007 10:56 AM
There's absolutely no doubt that 9/11 changed everyone's attitudes.
But Bush should have known better than to use a word like humble when talking about foreign policy. It just doesn't apply to a superpower.
I don't disagree with all of Bush's foreign policy initiatives, but he was arrogant in leading us into Iraq with inadequate planning and support from allies.
His approach to North Korea, insisting on involving China, South Korea, Japan and Russia in negotiations, has been absolutely right -- although there, oddly, Democrats say he should have gone it alone.
Posted on August 15, 2007 11:06 AM
Good Lord it's hard to be humble,
when they're trying to cut off your head.
When bombs blow your Bradley twenty feet in the air,
You might as well just stay in bed.
To know me us is to love us.
We must be a hell of a bunch of men.
Good lord it's hard to be humble,
But we're doing the best that we can.
Posted on August 15, 2007 11:15 AM