May 15, 2006
Two quick questions on immigration
1) What precisely is it that the military can do that the Border Patrol cannot do to protect the border?
2) It has been five years since 9/11--why doesn't the Border Patrol have the capability to do it?
Actually, the President's speech demonstrates the perfection of Sir Humphrey Appleby's syllgism on political crisis decision-making:
1) We must do something.
2) This is something.
3) Therefore, we must do this.
|
Thread: Campaign 2006 , Thread: GWB, the Beloved Leader , Thread: Immigration
1. Accidentally escalate a situation into the use of deadly force, something that the military excels at (and I am normally thankful that they do.)
Posted by: jerry at May 15, 2006 09:48 PMReminds me of a joke. A guy comes into a new job and finds in his desk three envelopes, each to be used when a crisis occurs.
Envelope 1 - Blame your predecessor
Evelope 2 - Reorganize
Evelope 3 - Make 3 envelopes for the next guy.
Posted by: RickG at May 15, 2006 11:04 PMOddly, the Chin Legalist statesman Li Si (or Li Ssu) (280-208 BC), a soulmate of the royalist ideologues serving the Bush dynasty, penned a treatise "In Advice Against the Driving Away of Guest Immigrants".
The Wikipedia article on Chinese Legalism says that in this doctrine, strict and harsh laws (fa) must be complemented by secret tactics (shu) "employed by the ruler to make sure others don't take over control of the state. Especially important is that no one can fathom the ruler's motivations..." Sounds familiar.
Li Si ended up cut in two by order of the Emperor, shortly before the dynasty collapsed, taking its its totalitarian ideology with it.
1) Create the illusion that Bush is finally going to do something about illegal immigration.
2) Because both major parties agree that "it" shouldn't get done.
This is just a PR stunt. The problem for Bush is that he's now in a downward spiral of credibility with his own base, and so PR stunts don't work. They just accellerate the spiral. Only DOING something real would work, and that he will refuse to do.
Posted by: Brett Bellmore at May 16, 2006 03:53 AMlvdlmme acdwwkaqocj
Posted by: Jasper at November 7, 2006 11:43 AMlvdlmme acdwwkaqocj
Posted by: Jasper at November 7, 2006 11:43 AMlvdlmme acdwwkaqocj
Posted by: Jasper at November 7, 2006 11:43 AMlvdlmme acdwwkaqocj
Posted by: Jasper at November 7, 2006 11:44 AMThanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out)
(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)
