Sunday, June 06, 2004
Goodnight, moon
Really, the wingers are into magical thinking, aren't they?
Saying the magic words, makes it so. "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall." And then—when Reagan is no longer in office—the wall comes down, and therefore Reagan caused the wall to fall. Not a generation of bipartisan foreign strategy, implemented over many administrations, of course. Oh no.
Same deal with the neo-cons: If they say the Iraqis will greet us with flowers, that will cause it to happen. Magical thinking. And if the spell doesn't work the first time, they pronounce the magic words again, but louder. That works just fine in the ideological world of winger Beltway thinktanks, but it doesn't work so well in the real world, does it?
I'm with Clinton: Governance should be evidence-based. Not based on supernatural, magical powers.
Saying the magic words, makes it so. "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall." And then—when Reagan is no longer in office—the wall comes down, and therefore Reagan caused the wall to fall. Not a generation of bipartisan foreign strategy, implemented over many administrations, of course. Oh no.
Same deal with the neo-cons: If they say the Iraqis will greet us with flowers, that will cause it to happen. Magical thinking. And if the spell doesn't work the first time, they pronounce the magic words again, but louder. That works just fine in the ideological world of winger Beltway thinktanks, but it doesn't work so well in the real world, does it?
I'm with Clinton: Governance should be evidence-based. Not based on supernatural, magical powers.
