Deconstructing Soros
Soros begins his polemic in the December Atlantic Monthly entitled “The Bubble of American Supremacy”, by stating that while September 11, 2001 “changed the course of history” it only did so because President Bush “responded to it the way he did”. He asks plaintively “How could a single event, even one involving 3,000 civilian casualties, have such a far-reaching effect?”.
Soros is apparently blind to the fact that the same argument could be used regarding December 7, 1941. By the same token, if your neighbor poisons your dog, you could choose to ignore the act, and thus avoid further unpleasantness such as filling out police reports.
Soros posits that underlying the president’s response to 9/11 are principles that “can be summed up as follows: International relations are relations of power, not law; power prevails and law legitimizes what prevails.”
If anyone can point me to the speech or interview where Bush enunciated these “principles” I would be in their debt.
Attacking what he calls “The supremacist ideology of the Bush Administration” Soros cites “the very first sentence of the September 2002 National Security Strategy” : "The great struggles of the twentieth century between liberty and totalitarianism ended with a decisive victory for the forces of freedom—and a single sustainable model for national success: freedom, democracy, and free enterprise."
Soros responds: “The assumptions behind this statement are false on two counts. First, there is no single sustainable model for national success.”
Really? One wonders which other models have worked or are working in Mr. Soros’ estimation. Remember that the “single sustainable model” is not specifically referring to American Style, or even Western Style, government models, but to “freedom, democracy, and free enterprise."
Doros rambles father into the thicket of confusion: “Second, the American model, which has indeed been successful, is not available to others, because our success depends greatly on our dominant position at the center of the global capitalist system, and we are not willing to yield it.”
Got that? America is the most successful not because of our system but because we are the best. Or, in other words, the economic egg laid the systemic chicken.
To Be Continued...
