Cato Inst. Fellow (Reagan Asst) turns on Bush....

[Gloria]

Broken out from the new World Media Watch at the LBN forum, revamped header so it would get more attention...



1//The Toronto Star Jul. 6, 2003. 12:49 PM

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Red, white and worried

POST-WAR EUPHORIA GIVES WAY TO NEW REALITIES AS FOURTH OF JULY FINDS AMERICA TROUBLED AND CONFUSED



Tim Harper




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"The realization has finally taken root in this country that Iraq is a problem, that it will end up with a fair number of U.S. casualties and there is no exit strategy," says Doug Bandow, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute research foundation.



"The sense of triumph, the exultation, the sense that we were doing something good in fighting terrorism and getting rid of Saddam will become a passing notion."



As Iraq slides out of its control, the Bush administration is paying the price for pursuing unilateralism — now going cap in hand to other countries, pleading for international help for its dispirited and beleaguered troops in the country.



"Begging Poland and Ukraine and Nicaragua and Honduras to help us is rather humiliating and degrading when we are supposed to be the great power," says Clyde Prestowitz, founder of the Economic Strategic Institute and author of American Unilateralism And The Failure Of Good Intentions.



Speaking from Europe, Prestowitz says traditional allies, whom Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld calls the "new Europe," want no part of the chaos in Iraq and don't want to fight under American command.



"We are now paying the price of our own cynicism and the perception in Europe of an America betraying its own ideals. It may be a silent price at home, but I hear it everywhere (in Europe.)"

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[DavidDvorkin]

1. Love that graphic

of the Statue of Liberty weeping. Where did you get that?


http://www.dvorkin.com

[Gloria]

6. I forget where I found it, but you can pick it up on my site at the top...

I don't know how these sigs are working...first the whole thing was up, then it wasnt' so I edited it, including the image so now it's not there any more...

By the way, what are those graphics on the sides of some threads? How do they get there??

[Lostnote03]

2. ????

.....I happened to catch the founder of CATO on TV(C-Span) this morning and was kinda taken back when he proclaimed that the economic woes began on 911.....everything else amounted to essentialy the standard line that all Govt is bad and all free mrkt is good.....the host, in my opinion gave him a free pass wrt challenging any of positions that he took......

[revcarol]

3. It seems that all that free trade Bush promised them

isn't coming true, ....then can always go to China....Whoops, they already are, as owners of industries using semi-slave labor.

Sour grapes because they haven't gotten rich yet from Iraq, and their European partners are pissed and being affected by boycotts.

Cato has no sense of the public and community.Everyone in the world is a consumer and a wage slave, to be exploited.

[Eloriel]

4. Actually

CATO has been somewhat (or partially) critical of Bush for a while. But more is always welcome.

Eloriel

[UTUSN]

5. That's What I Was Going to Say, That Cato

is said to be hostile to the wingnuts. This is my first post on the new system, so who knows how it works.

[Brian Sweat]

7. Is that some think tank started by the guy that lived with OJ?

[G_j]

8. Prestowitz on NPR

"NPR : Rogue Nation"
<http://discover.npr.org/rundowns/segment.jhtml?wfId=1321479>

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