Pouring concrete
I was listening to some guy on the radio discussing the US/Russian dispute regarding the missile defense sites in Poland and the Czech Republic.
He made the point that the Bush admin will never consent to the Russian requested change of venue for those facilities because the Bush admin wants to start "pouring concrete" before the next president arrives in office making discontinuation nearly inevitable.
It really got me thinking about how many different ways the Bush Presidency is trying to "pour concrete" broadly across its foreign policy, much like the current policy to pass the Iraq occupation on to the next administration or the potential irrevocable acts towards Iran.
This administration desperately wants to pour that concrete of irrevocability even if it is into a bucket attached to the next president's feet.
Later: From ABCNews and Tim Russert it sounds like tonight the President will commit to a "long term security arrangement" (permanent presence) in Iraq. (That's alot of concrete.)
He made the point that the Bush admin will never consent to the Russian requested change of venue for those facilities because the Bush admin wants to start "pouring concrete" before the next president arrives in office making discontinuation nearly inevitable.
It really got me thinking about how many different ways the Bush Presidency is trying to "pour concrete" broadly across its foreign policy, much like the current policy to pass the Iraq occupation on to the next administration or the potential irrevocable acts towards Iran.
This administration desperately wants to pour that concrete of irrevocability even if it is into a bucket attached to the next president's feet.
Later: From ABCNews and Tim Russert it sounds like tonight the President will commit to a "long term security arrangement" (permanent presence) in Iraq. (That's alot of concrete.)
posted by mikevotes at
4:02 PM
7 Comments:
Facts on the ground.
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Anonymous, at 3:45 PM
Hopefully the Czech people will resist. Wait, did I just say "Czech" and "resist" in the same sentence? Yep, I sure did. O.K. scratch that.
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Praguetwin, at 4:07 PM
Somehow this metaphor crystallized it for me. The goal is not just to screw up today, but to force a course that will require bad circumstances tomorrow.
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mikevotes, at 4:19 PM
Pouring concrete is a brilliant metaphor.
Bush wants to institutionalize his policy decisions to make them inevitable.
It reminds me of the movie 'Aliens', the next president will cough once or twice and a Bush creature will suddenly burst from his/her chest.
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Anonymous, at 7:19 PM
Exactly. I don't know why, but this metaphor just captured my mind.
And if I understand your metaphor properly, the Bush team is attaching itself to the faces of the candidates right now.
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mikevotes, at 9:00 PM
When I think of pouring concrete, it reminds me of a year and a half ago when we were getting all those stories about the super-bases being built and the amount of concrete that was being poured.
Now that's dried concrete... and a lot of it.
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Praguetwin, at 11:49 AM
Exactly.
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mikevotes, at 2:13 PM
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