[lit-ideas] Re: Should Chirac join Bush in oblivion?

As an American citizen I can deplore Chirac's misdeeds, if he's guilty 
of any, just as I could, years ago, deplore Idi Amin's brutality. But 
deploring something in this fashion only counts in the rhetoric of tu 
quoque. 'If you condemn Bush, what about Chirac?' I'm sure it wasn't 
Eric's intention to engage in such rhetoric.

I wasn't using rhetoric to insist that there was a balance, as though I 
were a Republican, but rather to encourage discussion of the scandal in 
question (see my original post) and to argue that oil money spreads 
corruption throughout the industrialized world so that no country can be 
said to hold the high ground or be free of its taint.

And that therefore the problem that Bush represents will not be solved 
by merely removing Bush. It is international in scope and must be 
treated as an international problem.

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