Submitted by Seton Motley on May 9, 2006 - 6:58pm.
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Fictional Facts, and Factual Fictions |
Scripps Howard has allowed longtime editorialist (first as newsman, of late more forthrightly) Martin Schram to pontificate on his version of Reality (located nowhere near the real thing) regarding world views and a tome of some deleterious note, written (in name only) by eminent Georgetowne party hostess and subsequent Clinton Administration Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's "The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs".
(Her skills as soiree chaperone seem to have served as the foremost qualification for her consequent penultimate gig.)
Mister Schram begins his delusional screed with a fantastically stunning display of either casuistry or gross loss of short term memory, by proffering the following:
In domestic policy, Social Security has long been labeled the deadly third rail.
In international policy, the nexus of religion and policy is the verity none dares touch.
Until now. A former U.S. secretary of state has dared to write a bold book suggesting that God does have a role in international policy, that religion's influence on policy is real, profound, cannot be ignored and thus must be harnessed to become a force for good.
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Mister Schram's Proximate Abodal Domain |
Wow. This introductory couplet is quite simply staggering. Has not Mister Schram been reading any newspapers, watching any network news, or residing anywhere on Planet Earth since before President George W. Bush took the reins in 2000?
Leaving aside that President Bush ascended to said title in no small part due to a campaign focused upon revamping the destined for failure Ponzi scheme mentioned in Sentence I, the current resident at the End of the Road has from the very beginning of his time on the national stage repeatedly cited God and his faith thereIn, and fervently applied it to all things political and policy beyond the Ponds.
In a December 13th, 1999, Elephantary primary debate, engaged to help delineate who would have the right to face environmental jet setter Al Gore in the year following, then Governor Bush named Jesus Christ as the political philosopher or thinker with whom he most identified.
The Press response was immediate, irreligious, scurrilous and unrelenting. And onward from that moment, the Media in totality awaited with baited breath each and every successive Bush reference to the Almighty, for further inflammatory and excoriatory purposes.
Adduced for particularly virulent journalistic scorn have been the President's frequent allusions to his faith in the execution of our nation's defense and the war to set into global Jihadist insanity. He has garnered unbelievably clamorous Press castigations for so religiously doing; it has in fact been all Media encompassing, and they have been quite thorough in their mining of said disparagemental subject.
All of which again begs the inexorable question, where has Mister Schram been during all of this?
We over here in Reality will never, ever know, so let us now instead turn our attentions for but the briefest of moments to the Albright pseudo-scribic endeavor its own self.
Madeleine Albright is but the latest liberal to founder horrendously whilst in a position of power, and then posthumously pontificate periphrastically on how her successor is doing a terrible job of, largely, cleaning up the innumerable messes she left (See Also [amongst many, many others]: Carter, Jimmy).
The global terror network grew roots, vines and branches on her, and the High-Chair President's, watch. The multitudinous Caliphatic organizations grew closer in Apocolyptic league, and Al Qaeda specifically attacked us repeatedly throughout the 1990s. Clinton did nothing save ignore, retreat and roll back, with intermittent discriminate missle salvos at suspect African aspirin factories and empty Bedouin tents.
The Boy President's eight year hiatus from history, for which Albright was the worldwide ambassador, is what backed us into a planet with North Korea now in possession of nuclear weapons and Iran on the brink of acquiring same.
Additionally, Clinton entered office with a domestic to foreign oil utilization ratio of 60-40, but in wholesale acquiescence to the "watermelon" environmentalists (green on the outside, red on the in), left with these numbers flipped, thereby increasing our reliance on and further augmenting the fiscal fortunes of those whose hatred for us he allowed to fester and expand in ever escalating violence, culminating in the attacks on September 11th, 2001.
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(Hopefully the) Last, Though Certainly Not the Least |
(One will note that there and then is where the serial attacks on American civilians ceased, as the successors to the Ostrich Administration had by then assumed the mantles of power, and concurrently reassumed the responsibilities that come with the Presidential privileges of which the former were so exclusionarily fond.)
In short, the Clinton Administration, including Madame Albright in a key non-role, left the world a MUCH more dangerous place than they found it.
And we are now afforded the luxury of a six hundred page essay from Madame Secretary, with a foreword by her equally un- and ill-equipped former boss, on how best to do all things international, a subject on which she so clearly and unequivocally demonstrated her inabilities whence she had the opportunity to practice what she is now retroactively preaching.
The brazen hypocrisy of anyone on the Left proclaiming that God should be a part of foreign policy, whilst liberals the world over are scorning and ridiculing the current President for including already some of the Man Upstairs in the execution of the myriad and miserable tasks of de- and un-Clintonizing the planet, is quite simply breathtaking.
And aside from all of this, the photograph on the dust jacket is positively frightening.
Just another day at the office for the Media, and the members of their rooting Party interest.
