Been a busy few days here in the old TIME house in Baghdad. I contributed to The Condi Doctrine for the magazine, and wrote a piece on Steven Vincent for New York Magazine. This follows on my post from earlier this week.
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Thoughtful piece Chris.
(Also, check out Juan Cole’s blog for an additional angle in terms of how Vincent may have raised the ire of some in Basra.)
Chris: Has Cindy Sheehan’s protest at the Bush ranch been reported in Iraq? If so, what’s the reaction been to it?
This is exactly why I read your site and canceled my Time subscription.
Here’s an impertinent and sarcastic summary of the Time piece: “she’s great, so great, woah, Woah, WOAH, she’s so dedicated, she’s so manageresque, a magnificent woman, so unique, so black (and a woman), she had to work with Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld and sometimes it wasn’t fun, no kidding, she’s great, now that’s just in: she doesn’t have a clue what to do about Iraq, like everyone else in the White House, but she’s kinda doing her job and being a diplomat, isn’t that remarkable? and (little-known fact) she’s from Alabama, which was at some point in time segregated, which motivated her to do her job and then there’s the quote at the end: ‘if only the Afghans and the Iraqis were americans, we could be Great Britain and they’d become democratic all by themselves, because we invaded them, the world’s just so unfair!’.”
I have the impression that whoever edited this article was so eager to not offend anyone that there’s words, but no news :-/. Compared to the content on your great site and your personal commitment to your work, they should just have given you the whole space to fill.
jm: And don’t forget, “daughter of a sharecropper”!
Should have kept her in the field and let her pick cotton she would have been more useful to the world instead of a cheerleader for the dimbulb in there now.
Yet, while being in agreement with many of the above statements about the Condi article, I was left with the distinct feeling that she was completely disparaged in this article for her (and Bush) being completely out-of-touch with reality on this matter.
The play up on her gifts and abilities (which should not be disputed) provides a contrast to what happens when such a person drinks the “kool aid.” That allegation was clearly made in the article.
Geo. W. Bush threw a grenade at Osama Bin Laden .
Bin Laden pulled the pin out and threw it back.
Caught some TV footage of an Al Arabiya news channel video of a masked militant holding AK 47 spewing anti western rant in what sounded like a “Down Under” accent.
Russell Crowe going ballistic?
Women just can’t read a map. You let a woman drive the space shuttle….and she lands at the wrong airport!