"Oh yes... I'm the great... Decider..."

The Great Decider has decided; why won't those naughty Hezbollans listen? Don't they watch Fox News? Or read the WSJ editorial page? If only they would put their hand in the hand of the man who frog-marched Iraq to Freeance and Peance...

White House Briefing -- News on President George W Bush and the Bush Administration

As President Bush's foreign policy oscillates between "cowboy diplomacy" and "post-cowboy diplomacy" and back again, it's worth pointing out that it's not really correct to call it diplomacy if he invariably refuses to talk to people who disagree with him.

The U.N. resolution Bush was pushing this morning from his vacation home in Texas bears the hallmarks of non-diplomacy: It's a supposed cease-fire resolution that the parties most desperate for a cease fire are condemning as unworkable, unsatisfactory and doomed.

Perhaps that's because the Bush administration is only engaging in direct talks with one party to the hostilities: Israel. The United States refuses to conduct negotiations with Hezbollah or its sponsors, Syria and Iran.

And the views of the democratically-elected government of Lebanon -- where the continuing Israeli air strikes have killed more than 550 people, mostly civilians -- are being dismissed by the White House as the overly emotional arguments of people who don't know what's best for them.

And of course, he who talks to the Father...you know, THAT Father...knows best. S'why we re-elected him, even though we didn't actually elect him in the first place, but that's arsenic under the bridge, OK? Here, lemme help you see how much easier life is once you place your trust in Our Dear Leader...

He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

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