How's this, Dear Gentle Reader(s), for a headline: "Obama Admires Bush"?
Well, since it appears in the only-slightly-less-esteemed New York Times, it immediately strikes one as implausible. Ergo, one hies to the page and discovers that good ol' David Brooks has snookered us once again, albeit rather pleasantly.
The article is a discussion of the teapot tempest swirling around President G. W. Bush's recent speech to the Knesset of Israel in which he spoke of "appeasement" in such a manner as to suggest he was interjecting criticism of Senator Obama into a speech on foreign soil.
Mr. Brooks relates parts of a conversation he recently had with the Senator, and in it Obama, much to Brooks' approval spoke words of admiration for the policies of President George H. W. Bush during the Desert Storm period in 1991.
The column speaks well of the Senator's understanding, as Brooks sees it, of the use of diplomacy as a tool, along with the military, to be used in the effectuation of foreign policy.
Would the current Administration had as much understanding.
*Intro to "Show Me" from My Fair Lady.
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