Bush’s brain continues to evolve

As summed up at Powerline:

The Jerusalem Post reports that Secretary Rice has sought the advice of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton ahead of her planned Middle East peace conference scheduled to take place soon in Annapolis. The White House called the meeting with Carter positive and “to the point.”

The Post also reports that Rice has recently conferred with Dennis Ross, James Baker, Henry Kissinger, and Madeleine Albright.

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N. writes:

One is dumbstruck at this report. One of the things that is supposed to differentiate Republicans from Democrats is realism in foreign policy. By going hat in hand to the likes of Jimmy Carter, the Administration shows it is no different than the Clintons. Clearly, Rice is unable to learn from reality; the takeover of Gaza by Hamas has taught her nothing, for example.

What are we to do with people who prefer their own illusions, their own fantasies, their own memories, to reality?

LA replies:

This is very extreme. It shows we have leaders who are literally out of touch with reality. They’re so out of touch they don’t even realize or care how their actions make them appear.

And meanwhile, where are the Jewish neocons, those of the supposed divided loyalties? They remain basically silent, as they have been for years, ever since Bush in 2003 betrayed his June 2002 statement that he would do nothing to help the Palestinians achieve a state until they had gotten rid of terrorism. The neocon-haters on the right never see this. They don’t see that the Jewish neocons’ supreme loyalty is to Busheron and his global democracy policy, not Israel.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at October 27, 2007 11:30 AM | Send