As I Look Out Over All Your Smiling Faces...
...trying to think of a different phrase other than "Stay The Course".
I was driving in my car and listening to what's left of NPR on the radio, when they started talking about President Bush's current visit to Vietnam.
Apparently in Hanoi he was asked if he felt he could make any comparisons between the United States situation in Iraq with that of the the Vietnam war. Apparently he answered with something like this:
'If we learned one thing in Vietnam, it's not to quit'.
My loud "Whaaaat?!!!" I believe caused other drivers near me to temporarily lose control of their steering.
I mean come on, that sort of gung-ho patriotic stuff may go over well dribbling down your chin when you're speaking at an American Legion Post in the midwest, but this was Vietnam! Did you mean to say 'Yeah if we'd have stayed longer we would've kicked your ass good and many of you here today may not have been born." but just thought you'd phrase it a bit differently for a good soundbite? I don't think anyone else on the planet feels that the lesson learned in Vietnam was 'not to quit', but that just may be my perception. Actually I figured that most folks in the US thought that the lesson you learned from Vietnam was more of a 'Duck and Cover' type of ploy.
Anyways I'd love to have seen the faces of the audience that accompanied what was probably dead silence after he made that statement. Let's hear it for wise diplomacy .
Is there no cure for Foot In Mouth disease?
I was driving in my car and listening to what's left of NPR on the radio, when they started talking about President Bush's current visit to Vietnam.
Apparently in Hanoi he was asked if he felt he could make any comparisons between the United States situation in Iraq with that of the the Vietnam war. Apparently he answered with something like this:
'If we learned one thing in Vietnam, it's not to quit'.
My loud "Whaaaat?!!!" I believe caused other drivers near me to temporarily lose control of their steering.
I mean come on, that sort of gung-ho patriotic stuff may go over well dribbling down your chin when you're speaking at an American Legion Post in the midwest, but this was Vietnam! Did you mean to say 'Yeah if we'd have stayed longer we would've kicked your ass good and many of you here today may not have been born." but just thought you'd phrase it a bit differently for a good soundbite? I don't think anyone else on the planet feels that the lesson learned in Vietnam was 'not to quit', but that just may be my perception. Actually I figured that most folks in the US thought that the lesson you learned from Vietnam was more of a 'Duck and Cover' type of ploy.
Anyways I'd love to have seen the faces of the audience that accompanied what was probably dead silence after he made that statement. Let's hear it for wise diplomacy .
Is there no cure for Foot In Mouth disease?
posted by Scott | 1:49 PM
1 Comments:
Yeah ... he really is quite a testament to the ability of the human mind to observe what one already believes to be there.
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