There are times when the analysis of social dynamics calls for nuance. This is not one of them:
Warmly greeted by world leaders in Vietnam, US president Bush drew a different reaction Sunday at his upcoming stop in Indonesia, where thousands angrily protested America’s policy in the Middle East and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan… The president was to spend just six hours in Indonesia, most of it at Bogor Palace, a presidential retreat outside the capital of Jakarta and far from the scene of protests on Sunday where Bush was denounced as a “war criminal” and “terrorist”. While president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is a close US ally in the war on terror, Bush is highly unpopular in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation.
If you think that President Bush is a bigger threat to civilization than Osama Bin Laden, you are one of the following:
(1) idiotic
(2) pathological
(3) a pathological idiot
There is no fourth option.
Previously: The Essential Stupidity of Leftist Displays of Solidarity, What Liberal Academic Bias?, The Left’s Pathetic Ignorance and Hatred of PM Sharon
