Another point I overlooked... A few days back I highlighted Bush's apparent lack of knowledge about the existence of the Cold War. What didn't hit me until just now is how doubly odd his words sound in light of this whole portgate fiasco.
As a reminder, here's the bit of Bush's speech that was so odd:
| Bush: "You know, a lot of us grew up thinking that oceans would protect us; that if there was a threat overseas, it really didn't concern us because we were safe. That's what history had basically told us -- yes, there was an attack on Pearl Harbor, obviously, but it was a kind of hit-and-run and then we pursued the enemy. A lot of folks -- at least, my age, when I was going to college, I never dreamed that the United States of America could be attacked. And in that we got attacked, I vowed then, like I'm vowing to you today, that I understand my most important priority. My most important job is to protect the security of the American people." |
The oceans don't protect us anymore, he says. And yet he sees no problem with outsourcing control of our ports to the United Arab Emirates. Talk about cognitive dissonance!
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