Wednesday, March 17, 2004

New world disorder Posted here Wednesday, March 17, 2004 at 8:40:37 AM     This is likely to be a very common perception The Bushes' new world disorder By James Carroll, 3/16/2004 "IT MUST BE considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things." This warning is from Niccolo Machiavelli, yet it has never had sharper resonance. Wore than a decade ago, after Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, President George H. W. Bush explicitly sought to initiate, as he put it to Congress, a "new world order." He made that momentous declaration on Sept. 11, 1990. Eleven years later, the suddenly mystical date of 9/11 motivated his son to finish what the father began. A year ago this week, Bush the younger launched a war against the man who tried to kill his dad, initiating the opposite of order. It will be important to understand why some people (half, more or less, of the US population?) do not agree. I think primarily is is fear of the democrats, of big government, big bureucracy, loss of local community control of assets. I am not saying this fear is well grounded (and the turn of the right against Bush for big government is real), but not totally stupid. The stronger conservative agenda of bankrupting the countryb to get rid of all vetiges of new deal thinking can also bind loyalty to the Bush side, and needs to be taken seriously.   ********