Imagine scaling down Bush's internat. approach to the local level, would he be a good influence in the city?

Question

Example, when some of our allies didn't support our going to war in Iraq, (France, etc.) it was like a good friend trying to keep us out of a barroom brawl.

Or, If a couple of gang members in Los Angeles blow up a building, you first find the people who are protecting the bombers, then you arrest them, but some of the gangsters go to Texas, so you go to New York and bomb the Bronx since many gangs live there. Put a bunch of cops there and an endless supply of gangsters come from all over to fight the cops. And while you're focusing so much on the conflict in the Bronx, a relgious sect in Kansas is planning to blow up Washington.

Or, (here's a more positive one) you live in great house in a subdivision surrounded by poor neighborhoods. Your neighbors want to build a gate around the community and have a security guard and watch carefully who enters. But you do have a heart for some of the hungry that jump the fence to pick up your fruit.

Answer 1

i think that these are good analogies. the scaled down local models and applications of logic are as misguided and nonsensical as bush's international approaches are to immigration and the terrorists and to our allies.

Answer 2

The issues you're turning into metaphors are much more serious than a simple theft of fruit or bar fight. They are life or death, world-impact situations. They need to be considered heavily, and can't really be reduced to a local level and have the same importance. Nice try though.

Answer 3

Oh, contraire.

France was not a good friend wanting to keep the US out of a barroom brawl.

The UNited States is taking on one of the most evil threats this world has ever seen and France is too chicken sh*t to stand at our side.

Answer 4

Violence will occur if the terrorists wanted it to happen.

Answer 5

This is a rant, not a question.