The dignity decider
In between writing a book and takimagging, I often have to play catch-up on old news stories. I hope that the following story is not old hat to any of you, but it caught my eye when I was rummaging through old e-links and files:
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_obama_doctrine
In an article by Spencer Ackerman ("The American Prospect,” March 24, 2008), readers learn that the Obama Doctrine will put an end to the neocon’s “hollow sloganeering” about “democracy promotion.” Now that’s a relief to all those Obamacons out there. But wait, Team Obama plans to replace this Jacobinism with “dignity promotion.” The US of A must promote “dignity” as the only way to help liberty, justice, and prosperity to take root globally.
Well. I am just so relieved that Obama will discard all those utopian goals characteristic of Bush the Younger. At long last, the Democrats have come up with a practical and prudential foreign policy. After all, everybody around the world agrees on the meaning of dignity, even though they disagree on what counts as democracy. The consensus on the meaning of dignity is clear, from New Guinea to New York.
Yup, the future of the republic is bright indeed. No more empire-building, just dignity for all. Perhaps he will also create the New Jerusalem in the process, so long as it’s not in Iraq.
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Sounds good to me.
And far superior to the s/m neocon choreographed military theatricals
at Gitmo and Abu Ghraib as well as mass murder.
What’s that? Humiliation promotion?
I think your point was that “the promotion of human dignity” is self-evidently risible.
While I believe the fix is in for McCain, the idea that Obama might recover his own dignity
and that of all Americans by ending proxy wars on behalf of Israel and rediscovering his compassion for the Palestinians makes me dreamy about the promotion of human dignity.
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I imagine president Obama as someone who will be famous for getting innocent people killed for not only dignity but other nice sounding words like decency, kindness, compassion (Bush has already beaten him to that one), sincerity, sympathy, empathy, love, condolences, and just about any other feeling that regularly makes its way onto a Hallmark Card.
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I imagine President Obama as an unqualified utopian fool presiding, clumsily and overwhelmed, over the most extravagant collapse of a nation the world has ever seen.
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Dollars? I don’t want your steenking dollars!!!
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True conservatives should welcome an Obama presidency because having the United States Marine Corps occasionally providing security for Red Cross relief convoys is a far superior state of affairs than using miltary might to force “Democracy” on the Arabs or to obliterate Iran.
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Is Taki still on the ‘caine?
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