Sane People, Who Don't Want to See the Last 60 Years of Int'l Alliances and US Dominance Go Poof, for Kerry

Or SPWDWSLSYIAUSDGOP for Kerry.

This is far more heartening than the subject of my previous post.

And actually, they haven't all signed on to the Kerry campaign, but they're definitely not voting for Bush in the fall.

"A lot of people felt the work they had done over their lifetime in trying to build a situation in which the United States was respected and could lead the rest of the world was now undermined by this administration — by the arrogance, by the refusal to listen to others, the scorn for multilateral organizations," Harrop said.

Jack F. Matlock Jr., who was appointed by Reagan as ambassador to the Soviet Union and retained in the post by President Bush's father during the final years of the Cold War, expressed similar views.

"Ever since Franklin Roosevelt, the U.S. has built up alliances in order to amplify its own power," he said. "But now we have alienated many of our closest allies, we have alienated their populations. We've all been increasingly appalled at how the relationships that we worked so hard to build up have simply been shattered by the current administration in the method it has gone about things."

The GOP is eager to paint this as a partisan attack, but the list of former military and diplomatic figures includes a large number from the Reagan and Bush I administrations, so that's going to be kinda hard.

So, when that line of attack doesn't work, they will argue that "everything changed on 9-11." Many things did change, but I'm not sure how destroying international alliances and alienating our allies fall into that category.

And then there's Donkeys in the Desert, a small group of Democrats and increasing number of RINOs (Republicans in Name Only) working for the CPA in Iraq. And they're growing disgusted with their colleagues.

There is no shortage of politicization within Coalition circles in Iraq, to be sure. In the middle of the marble palace that serves as C.P.A. headquarters (and that will serve, at least temporarily, as part of the U.S. Embassy, beginning next month), there is a painting of the World Trade Center towers—whose relevance to Operation Iraqi Freedom remains a matter of bitter contention. Stratcom, the Coalition press office, is staffed by a number of former Bush campaign workers. One Donkey reports chafing at a colleague’s remark, “I’m not here for the Iraqis, I’m here for George W. Bush.”

“A lot of Republicans walk around talking Republican stuff,” Weston said. “We call them Palace Pachyderms.”

And they're demanding that Kerry pay them a visit and get some sand up his nose. They're right to do so.