Would You Buy A Foreign Policy From This Man?

Too bad, you already have.

(Click on the image above to hear him describe it.)

Read it here.

(tip o' the hat to TPM.)

Update: Apparently, trucks from most states East of the Mississippi are being dispatched to Washington carrying loads of straw. The President's remarks have apparently used up all the straw men on the Eastern Seaboard, creating an urgent shortage.

For a while, American foreign policy was just, Let's hope everything is calm - kind of, managed calm.

You remember, back when Jimmy Carter was nominated for the Nobel Prize for 'just hoping' everything would be calm. And back when Candidate Bush was criticizing Bill Clinton for being too personally involved in sitting around doing nothing and 'hoping' for calm.

And, look, I fully understand some people don't believe it's possible for freedom and democracy to overcome this ideology of hatred. I understand that. I just happen to believe it is possible.

And I believe it will happen.

Yup, can't go listening to those someones who hate freedom and democracy.

And so what you're seeing is, you know, a clash of governing styles.

For example, you know, the notion of democracy beginning to emerge scares the ideologues, the totalitarians, those who want to impose their vision. It just frightens them. And so they respond. They've always been violent.

Democracy starting to emerge, like, say, in the Palestinian election ... no, wait...um,

You know, I hear this amazing kind of editorial thought that says, all of a sudden, Hezbollah's become violent because we're promoting democracy. They have been violent for a long period of time.

Where'd you hear that? I don't think I get that channel. But wait, isn't that what you were just saying? Democracy scares the ideologues so they lash out? Oh, never mind.

One reason why the Palestinians still suffer is because there are militants who refuse to accept a Palestinian state based upon democratic principles.

Like the ones who cut off aid once Hamas was elected, you mean?

And one of the challenges, of course, is to convince people that Muslims would like to be free

Yeah, I keep running into people on the bus who say, "Those Muslims, they just want to be ruled by autocratic regimes and familial dynasties." How will we ever convince them of the truth? It's hard work, is what it is.

There's this kind of almost – you know, kind of a weird kind of elitism that says well maybe - maybe certain people in certain parts of the world shouldn't be free; maybe it's best just to let them sit in these tyrannical societies.

Damn those elitists! What will it take to make them realize it's better to destroy those tyrannies, and then by administering them incompetently, allow the countries to decay into bloody civil war?

And our foreign policy rejects that concept. We don't accept it. And so we're working.

Well, except in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Well, and Pakistan. And, well, we don't accept it! We don't!