  Have Intercourse With Our Friends and Beat the Crap Out of Our Neighbors At least, that's how this George W quote from a speech in Britain is bound to get picked up: "It really is about time we started to realize who are allies are, who our enemies are, stick with the one and fight the other. " It must have sounded good in his head at the time. Aside from when he really gets his mind set on something, Bush tends to be much more a grayscale thinker than he expresses himself to be.
This has been part of his PR problem since... well, since forever. I imagine him seeing this kind of statement as grand and heroic rhetoric, a head coach in the locker room at halftime about to stage the biggest come-from-behind victory the world has ever seen. After the show, he gives Condoleeza Rice a high five and like college buddies they point out the kick-ass-ed-ness of the sound bite. I sincerely doubt Bush literally meant we're going to send the armed forces of all allied nations to massacre all non-allied nations. But you can't use global struggle as a metaphor when global struggle is what you're addressing. On a related note, it's times like these that we should read British papers like urlLink The Guardian . It allows us to see how the people being addressed are viewing how they're being addressed. Reading them to get the most honest outlook (which I know many who do) is just as immature as trusting mainstream US media as the end-all be-all. More on that later (if I can get myself riled up about it). urlLink Full Post and Comments 
