Bush: Con & Pro
10 Good Reasons Not to Vote For Bush
1. His administration has encouraged a military that is concerned more with public opinion than winning objectives. “Hearts and minds” becomes a viable strategy when “total annihilation” is the only alternative. This continues to be my greatest problem with President Bush and the way the Iraq War has been fought.
2. He has presided over the largest surplus-deficit swing in American history.
3. He encourages the outsourcing of jobs.
4. He supports dumping foreign labor in the USA to drive down wages.
5. He defends the ability for companies to incorporate offshore to save on taxes.
6. His support of free-trade is dogmatic and undermines his nationalist principles.
7. He weakened the EPA rules to the point where Christine Whitman (remember her?) quit the administration.
8. He has needlessly disenfranchised the gay rights community with support of the FMA.
9. He has alienated large segments of the population for no good reason. A uniter not a divider? Who was he kidding? Obviously some of those who voted for him 4 years ago.
10. His neutering of John McCain may have netted him the presidency, but his Machiavellian excesses during the South Carolina primary of 2000 have not been forgotten by many of McCain’s supporters – including me.
10 Good Reasons To Vote For Bush
1. I can forsee how he will govern over the next 4 years and while I have a significant difference of opinion with him on many issues, I believe that America will be safer under his leadership than anyone else’s.
2. He believes in attacking root causes of problems.
3. He is a staunch defender of Israel (much to the surprise of many).
4. He says what he means and means what he says.
5. He is a nationalist (although an economic transnationalist).
6. He ignores the criticism of his enemies (does he take it from his friends?) and does what he believes is the right thing to do. He is a principled man.
7. He has disrupted terror networks around the world.
8. He has devoted more money to AIDS research than any other world leader, past or present.
9. He sees the UN for what it is: a failed experiment dominated by undemocratic dictatorships that oppose basic human rights, democracy and a successful America.
10. He handled the crisis of September 11 with finesse.
Put the two lists together, and I’m on the fence. Then you add in this one fact - He’s NOT John Forbes Kerry - and it swings me over to his side.
W in ‘04
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To suggest that the United Nations is “a failed experiment dominated by undemocratic dictatorships” is very strange, since that statement contradicts the history and structure of the organization. I suggest you read up on the role and purpose of the UN.
Since you would probably distrust sources I would cite, and I can see that I for sure am skeptical of yours, I would at least reccomend you look up the Economist’s assessment of the UN, since we can find common ground there. You might also be willing to accept information from the BBC or UN Watch
Comment by Anonymous — 10/26/2004 @ 1:58 am
Oh, and there is a really solid overview of the UN at the politically neutral Wikipedia website.
Comment by Anonymous — 10/26/2004 @ 2:15 am
Anon
I usually don’t argue with anonymous entities, but I will say defend my remark thus:
Some of my info is taken from Human Rights Watch. Using their scale, I ranked every UN member on their human rights score. I discovered that the average UN nation is as open and free as Indonesia (see this Razor story).
Some other reasons:
1. The UN peacekeepers in Srebrenica under Dutch leadership stood aside and allowed Serbs to slaughter thousands of Muslim men and boys.
2. The UN under Kofi Annan failed to intervene in Rwanda.
3. The UN failed to stop the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo. Kosovo was saved only through a non-UN sanctioned intervention by NATO.
I suggest you read up on the history of the League of Nations. You’ll find that the similarities are striking.
And don’t be afraid to at least give me a first name; I don’t bite.
Comment by Scott Kirwin — 10/26/2004 @ 7:52 am
Solid Irish name. Good enough.
My desire is not to assert that the UN membership does not contain many bad countries. There are 193 countries on earth, and 191 are members of the UN. The point made here is that the purpose of the UN is to unify nations, to eliminate the us-against-them atmosphere that has constituted all of history and both world wars. This is a task that cannot be achieved in our lifetime and the alternative is a coalition of “good” countries whose objectives, by their very nature, must be national not global interests.
Other Reasons: The failures you have listed are all correct, but they do not justify dismissal of the UN. That would be akin to saying that because of the Napalming of Vietnam, military aid for Salvadoran death squads, and supplying Hussein with weapons in the 1980’s, the US should be considered a “failed experiment,” and given no credit. I don’t believe that, I’m sure you don’t believe that. And please spare me the “they had to” defense.
Finally, the League of Nations crumbled because the “great powers” did not treat it as an arbirtating body, and despised it when it did not serve their national interest. The same will happen to the UN if a like attitude is taken towards it- not by small, corrupt nations, but by the “great powers” that alone have the capacity to make or break it.
Goddamn, that was long. hope I didn’t put you to sleep.
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