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January 21, 2005
Idealist. Lofty Goals. Too Ambitious. Really.
I haven't had a chance to follow the press coverage of the inaugral speech too closely. But I did flip through the channels a bit, and read a bit of the commentary.
Idealist. Such lofty goals. Are commiting to fight all the dictatorships now?
That kind of rhetoric was a non-trivial portion of the pundit chatter. Have these people completely lost their sense of reality? Have they lost every last shred of dignity and self-respect? But even then, how does one keep a straight face while discussing if this president is too much of an idealist in search of democracy? Are they all this superb actors? Are they all this delusional?
Some of this is becoming really hard to comprehend.
Posted by zeynep at January 21, 2005 11:44 PM
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This is my favorite moment in journalism ever.
"As we were flying back to Washington in a lumbering C-17, I asked Wolfowitz if he ever worried that he was too idealistic -- that his passion for the noble goals of the Iraq war might overwhelm the prudence and pragmatism that normally guide war planners. He didn't answer directly, except to say that it was a good question."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49310-2003Oct31.html
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