Comments on: The President’s Speech http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/3812.html Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago boys including those pictured above. Thu, 24 May 2012 19:28:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Half Sigma http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/3812.html/comment-page-1#comment-17380 Half Sigma Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:45:44 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/003812.php#comment-17380 I miss Ronald Reagan's speeches and press conferences. I miss Ronald Reagan’s speeches and press conferences.

]]> By: Bill Baar http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/3812.html/comment-page-1#comment-17379 Bill Baar Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:25:07 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/003812.php#comment-17379 I heard Sen Levin responding telling the Iraqi's they should amend the constitution to make it more "inclusive" of the Sunni Arabs. I wonder where Levin was after the first Gulf War when we abandoned the Shia Arabs and to some extent the Sunni Kurds to Saddam. No talk to Saddam then about the constitution including Shia and Kurd. Takes some blood thirsty gall on Levin's part to talk like that. I heard Sen Levin responding telling the Iraqi’s they should amend the constitution to make it more “inclusive” of the Sunni Arabs.

I wonder where Levin was after the first Gulf War when we abandoned the Shia Arabs and to some extent the Sunni Kurds to Saddam.

No talk to Saddam then about the constitution including Shia and Kurd.

Takes some blood thirsty gall on Levin’s part to talk like that.

]]> By: Sandy P http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/3812.html/comment-page-1#comment-17378 Sandy P Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:54:31 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/003812.php#comment-17378 I also hate repeating myself to my child, but, well, it's got to be beaten into the American public's brain. I also hate repeating myself to my child, but, well, it’s got to be beaten into the American public’s brain.

]]> By: Jonathan http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/3812.html/comment-page-1#comment-17377 Jonathan Mon, 19 Dec 2005 04:05:13 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/003812.php#comment-17377 Thanks, Rizalist. These are great points. Thanks, Rizalist. These are great points.

]]> By: Rizalist http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/3812.html/comment-page-1#comment-17376 Rizalist Mon, 19 Dec 2005 03:27:24 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/003812.php#comment-17376 His most important point may have been the emergence of the Iraqi people themselves as partners in the enterprise. The first and only constitutional democracy in the Arab world has to count for something. But that partnership, much more so than public opinion in the homeland, will be much harder to manage and is the central challenge the President is only too aware of. The fate of Iraq is now not only in America's hands, but Iraqis too. I wouldn't mind it very much if more of them read the bulk of the New York Times, though others might steer them away from the front page and lead them to the Chicago Boyz. His most important point may have been the emergence of the Iraqi people themselves as partners in the enterprise. The first and only constitutional democracy in the Arab world has to count for something. But that partnership, much more so than public opinion in the homeland, will be much harder to manage and is the central challenge the President is only too aware of. The fate of Iraq is now not only in America’s hands, but Iraqis too. I wouldn’t mind it very much if more of them read the bulk of the New York Times, though others might steer them away from the front page and lead them to the Chicago Boyz.

]]> By: Ginny http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/3812.html/comment-page-1#comment-17375 Ginny Mon, 19 Dec 2005 03:09:43 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/003812.php#comment-17375 I suspect that part of the reason the press (and the public) don't always understand that Bush's arguments are the best is because a) military history, even diplomatic history, have not been "hot" subjects nor even taught much for the last couple of generations and b) because the sense that human nature is complicated and not turned on a dime is, again, not sufficiently recognized as we've stopped seeing civilization in broad, long sweeps. Then, as Barnett put it, it is just about "winning" and "today." I suspect that part of the reason the press (and the public) don’t always understand that Bush’s arguments are the best is because a) military history, even diplomatic history, have not been “hot” subjects nor even taught much for the last couple of generations and b) because the sense that human nature is complicated and not turned on a dime is, again, not sufficiently recognized as we’ve stopped seeing civilization in broad, long sweeps. Then, as Barnett put it, it is just about “winning” and “today.”

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