Where’s Maggie Thatcher when we need her?
Writing by treason on Wednesday, 26 of July , 2006 at 6:35 pm
If the Left can proclaim Bill Clinton the “first black president,” I’d like the Right to be able to proclaim Condi Rice the first black Margaret Thatcher. But there’s no evidence so far that Condi’s another Maggie. And that’s a disappointment. Sure, there were a lot of people on the Right who were thinking that George W. Bush was more Reagan than George H.W. Bush, but that’s not all that accurate, either.
We seem to be stuck, as a culture, in this nostalgic, weird, nebulous, sixties/seventies world (good Lord, just look at the awful clothes out there) and some of us - those who already experienced this weird nebulous world in real life - are starting to feel nostalgic for something that feels just a little bit more eighties. We want a Reagan. We want a Thatcher.
And this is a moment in history where someone has an engraved invitation to step up and fill those big shoes. Everybody’s looking at Condi. She’s a swell package and she’s certainly sharp. And she can be fierce. But is she fierce enough? Is she even conservative?
The relationship between Reagan and Thatcher was something to watch. It changed the world. Maggie wasted no time summing up Reagan’s successor and warned him against going all wobbly.
Now we’re watching the crisis in the Middle East and wondering if this Bush and Condi Rice will go wobbly. The pressure’s on: will the U.S. policy be wobbly or will we stand firm?
Iron or JELL-O? What will it be?
In a world where an incompetent like Kofi Annan can accuse the Israelis of deliberately targeting members of the U.N.; groups can sue when elections don’t go their way; and Lebanese-Americans can sue the federal government to influence foreign policy and dictate a cease-fire, it’s easy to succumb to wobbly.
A word of caution: Wobbly is never good foreign policy. (Happily, John Bolton seems to get that. The idiots who have contributed to Mr. Bolton’s inaccurate and libelous bio on Wikipedia obviously do not.)
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