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November 22, 2004
Should Bush have entrusted his security to a host country?
Two views of the Chilean incident.UPDATE: I expected some spin to the effect that Bush's USSS guys insisting on protecting their president their own way is one more example of American heavy-handed insensitivity, and calling Bush's response "violent." I was not disappointed:
After all, only three months ago these folks were calling Zell Miller's RNC speech "hateful" and "fascist."
May 8, 1985, was the 40th anniversary of Germany's capitulation and the end of the Third Reich. . . . The invitation to Reagan had caused considerable dismay to many parliamentarians. . . . When [the Parliament's president] informed the parliamentarians that they would have to submit to metal detectors before entering their own chamber to listen to Reagan, their accumulated anger surfaced. A group of women members, led by Luciana Castellana of Italy and Heidi Wieczorek-Zeul of Germany (now that nation's minister for development aid) wrote to Pflimlin expressing their distress at the distinguished visitor's apprehension about his safety. For their part, they would undertake to reassure him that they were not carrying weapons by entering the chamber without clothing. Pflimlin immediately canceled the metal-detector test, and the Reagan visit took its uninspiring course.The anti-Bushies are so predictable.. . . In Santiago yesterday, President Bush himself joined a confrontation between Chilean security and some of his agents. Perhaps the American president wished to consolidate his support among that considerable segment of our citizenry that instinctively dislikes foreigners -- and whose understanding of manliness makes the primitives studied by anthropologists, or the large apes studied by the primatologists, seem very civilized. Perhaps he was inspired by the example of the NBA player Ron Artest, who the other day took on officials, players and the public in a violent episode at Detroit.
Judith | 11/22/04 at 11:24 PM | Categories: - Across the Pond
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