Anyone else get the sense that George Will is just becoming a repository for historical anecdotes?
On ABC This Week, Will formulated a dozen little quips and snide responses that simplistically described Obama’s foreign policy. Never once did I get even a whiff of the alternative policy we should be pursuing.
Sure it would folly hardy to assume diplomacy was a full proof response to Iran or North Korea, but the reality is there isn’t any good options. Obama isn’t perusing diplomacy because of some ideological notion of harmony in the universe, but rather because it’s the least bad option.
If George Will has some great plan to make N. Korea behave I’d like to hear it, otherwise I don’t care what anyone overheard at the League of Nations.
Using historical examples as your argument is great.
So long as they are accurate.
To be exact I mean I he’s using historical quips that illustrate nothing other then platitudes such as ‘ Europe can’t lead Europe, much less the world’. Anybody that completed a 100 level college course on European politics knows their leaders can’t agree on anything.
He’s contribution to the dialogue is nothing more then the veneer historical wisdom covering the most trite and nonconstructive comments imaginable.