Connie Rice: an exercise in bad analogy
Political commentator Connie (not Condoleezza) Rice's "Top 10 'Taboo' Things Said about Baghdad" should be called, "I like to generalize everything to the point of absurdity so that my analogies work".
Might I retort?:
10.) Yes, it is great that the Iraqis are now free to flood their streets with tens of thousands of protesters in open demonstrations.
It's also great that we are free to do so as well. No one is saying that RNC protesters will not be able to protest.
9.) No, without a certain sustainable level of economic security, there will be no physical security.
The same would apply and does apply in the US. High unemployment produces higher crime rates.
8.) No, Iraqis cannot recover from 40 years of Hussein's savage brutality overnight.
Is it so hard to understand why that might be? Who is acting like 400 years of American slavery is ancient history? And, yes, it is irrelevant to the Iraq issue, unless you want to point out the fact that we didn't recover from slavery overnight either.
7.) Maybe quotas aren't the best solution in the long run, but sometimes Democracy needs a jump start.
Much like my car, which is sitting dead in the parking lot at the Avenue.
6.) It's probably a good thing that "we're confiscating thousands of guns to reduce violence and killing in Baghdad".
And there is a difference between gun control in Iraq and gun control in the US. Mainly because the US isn't in the midst of a bloody civil war, among other things... not least of which is the fact that, in Iraq, there are children on the streets carrying AK-47s and shooting at American Soldiers.
OK... I'm done.
Might I retort?:
10.) Yes, it is great that the Iraqis are now free to flood their streets with tens of thousands of protesters in open demonstrations.
It's also great that we are free to do so as well. No one is saying that RNC protesters will not be able to protest.
9.) No, without a certain sustainable level of economic security, there will be no physical security.
The same would apply and does apply in the US. High unemployment produces higher crime rates.
8.) No, Iraqis cannot recover from 40 years of Hussein's savage brutality overnight.
Is it so hard to understand why that might be? Who is acting like 400 years of American slavery is ancient history? And, yes, it is irrelevant to the Iraq issue, unless you want to point out the fact that we didn't recover from slavery overnight either.
7.) Maybe quotas aren't the best solution in the long run, but sometimes Democracy needs a jump start.
Much like my car, which is sitting dead in the parking lot at the Avenue.
6.) It's probably a good thing that "we're confiscating thousands of guns to reduce violence and killing in Baghdad".
And there is a difference between gun control in Iraq and gun control in the US. Mainly because the US isn't in the midst of a bloody civil war, among other things... not least of which is the fact that, in Iraq, there are children on the streets carrying AK-47s and shooting at American Soldiers.
OK... I'm done.
posted by david at 2:14 PM
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