10-02-2004, 08:25 PM
One doesn't build alliances, much less friendships, with threats. "With us or against us" is a threat.
It reminds me greatly of a scene that I saw with my 5 year-old daughter playing with her friends on the playground a few weeks back. Another girl the same age said "Play the game I want to play, or I will not be your friend ever again". Bush's rhetoric played to that same immaturity and control-issue mentality. It also garnered him and the entire USA the same response from several countries that my daughter gave to her snippish companion:
"Whatever."
:rolleyes:
It reminds me greatly of a scene that I saw with my 5 year-old daughter playing with her friends on the playground a few weeks back. Another girl the same age said "Play the game I want to play, or I will not be your friend ever again". Bush's rhetoric played to that same immaturity and control-issue mentality. It also garnered him and the entire USA the same response from several countries that my daughter gave to her snippish companion:
"Whatever."
:rolleyes:
Garnered Wisdom --
If it has more than four legs, kill it immediately.
Never hesitate to put another bullet into the skull of the movie's main villain; it'll save time on the denouement.
Eight hours per day of children's TV programming can reduce a grown man to tears -- PM me for details.
If it has more than four legs, kill it immediately.
Never hesitate to put another bullet into the skull of the movie's main villain; it'll save time on the denouement.
Eight hours per day of children's TV programming can reduce a grown man to tears -- PM me for details.