http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100587.html
"Who knew, in 2000, that 'compassionate conservatism' meant bigger
government, unrestricted government spending, government intrusion in
personal matters, government ineptitude, and cronyism in disaster relief?
Who knew, in 2000, that the only bill the president would veto, six years
later, would be one on funding stem-cell research? A more accurate term for
Mr. Bush's political philosophy might be incontinent conservatism. . . .
"George Tenet's WMD 'slam-dunk,' Vice President Cheney's 'we will be greeted
as liberators,' Don Rumsfeld's avidity to promulgate a minimalist military
doctrine, together with the tidy theories of a group who call themselves
'neo-conservative' (not one of whom, to my knowledge, has ever worn a
military uniform), have thus far: de-stabilized the Middle East; alienated
the world community from the United States; empowered North Korea, Iran, and
Syria; unleashed sectarian carnage in Iraq among tribes who have been
cutting each others' throats for over a thousand years; cost the lives of
2,600 Americans, and the limbs, eyes, organs, spinal cords of another
15,000 -- with no end in sight. But not to worry: Democracy is on the march
in the Middle East. . .
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