CaliValleyGirl's boyfriend is back from Afghanistan. Go over there and give them your congrats!

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Lileks watched Air Force One over the weekend:

It was shot in 1997. It opens with a joint American / Russian spec-ops kidnapping of a head of state, who is one of those super-nationalist Russians we were all twitchy about in the late 90s; he is sent to a very bad and smelly prison. Cut to President Solo, giving a speech that puts forth a new American policy towards terrorists and terror-enabling states:

Peace isn't merely the absence of conflict, but the presence of justice. Never again will I allow our political self-interest to deter us from doing what we know to be morally right. Atrocity and terror are not political weapons. And to those who would use them, your day is over. We will never negotiate. We will no longer tolerate and we will no longer be afraid. It's your turn to be afraid.

He is also quite physically fit AND he can fly a plane. This was the sort of person Hollywood wanted for President in 1997. Then they get one, and they completely wigged out. Ah well.

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1 Harrison Ford = Bush? Oh come on. Seriously? No, you don't think that... really? Man, that's too bad. I guess they do both wear a lot of costumes. However, I have always thought that the White House should consider hiring Hollywood screenwriters to write their speeches. Man, those liberal gaybars sure know how to write a good, moral, patriotic speech. (Check out the end of "The American President.") Of course, then Bush would go on and garble it with his mush-speak. But if they can write for Forest Gump, then I'm sure they can write for Bush too.

Posted by: Will Somerset at February 27, 2006 06:58 PM (eIQfa)

2 Sarah, I just gotta say...I love reading your comments. They are the MOST entertaining part of my day, for sure HA HA HA HA! Nicole

Posted by: Nicole at February 28, 2006 12:17 AM (1ECnr)

3 Will -- What on earth are you talking about? No one said that President Bush is like Harrison Ford. Harrison Ford is a real person. What Lileks said was that President Bush is like "President James Marshall" from the movie. Do you know the difference between an actor and the character he plays?

Posted by: Sarah at February 28, 2006 04:49 AM (VrdbX)

4 Like Bush is remotely that articulate. And James Marshall would have followed the Powell Doctrine and had a plan for the peace.

Posted by: Pericles at March 02, 2006 08:17 AM (eKf5G)

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Mark Steyn:

It's easy to be tough about nothing. The press corps that noisily champions "the public's right to know" about a minor hunting accident simultaneously assures the public that they've no need to see these Danish cartoons that have caused riots, arson and death around the world.

James Lileks:

The average AmericanÂ’s reaction to handing port control over to the UAE is instinctively negative, and for good reason. There are two basic reactions: We canÂ’t do this ourselves? and We should trust them, why?
As for the first, the assertion that American firms were the lower bidder is unpersuasive, rather like saying that we should have outsourced the flight crew for the Enola Gay to Japanese nationals because they knew the terrain better. As for the trust issue, well, wanting port control to remain in American hands is not a matter of Arabiaphobia, any more than selling Boeing to China means you harbor deep hatred of Asians. Some things ought to be left in local hands. It seems absurd to have to make that argument in the first place.

Christopher Hitchens:

The incredible thing about the ongoing Kristallnacht against Denmark (and in some places, against the embassies and citizens of any Scandinavian or even European Union nation) is that it has resulted in, not opprobrium for the religion that perpetrates and excuses it, but increased respectability! A small democratic country with an open society, a system of confessional pluralism, and a free press has been subjected to a fantastic, incredible, organized campaign of lies and hatred and violence, extending to one of the gravest imaginable breaches of international law and civility: the violation of diplomatic immunity. And nobody in authority can be found to state the obvious and the necessary—that we stand with the Danes against this defamation and blackmail and sabotage. Instead, all compassion and concern is apparently to be expended upon those who lit the powder trail, and who yell and scream for joy as the embassies of democracies are put to the torch in the capital cities of miserable, fly-blown dictatorships. Let's be sure we haven't hurt the vandals' feelings.

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