This incredible video was posted on Huffpo. [1] In the video, President Bush’s National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley (who was appearing on ABC’s “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos) repeatedly confused Nepal and Tibet. Watching this clip, I wonder whether Stephanopoulos caught the problem. Apparently not, so shame on both of them.
Ignorance of the real world is the hallmark of the Bush Administration. Nepal? Tibel? Iran? Iraq? Whatever. You know, those foreign countries.
Here’s something else that got lost in the post. Hadley is arguing that the Bush Administration is going to Beijing because it’s important to keep an open dialogue with a country with which the U.S. has heated differences. Gee, talk with the “bad” guys to maintain a relationship in order to better work things out? That sounds a lot like something Barack Obama said prior to getting roundly criticized by the Bush Administration. [2]
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