The editorial page of the New York Times has consistently called for the Bush administration to engage nations with which we have had contentious relations. The paper has taken President Bush to task for making an issue of North Korea's continual refusal to abide by agreements it has made with regard to its nuclear program. The paper has also criticized the President for not extending a hand of friendship to the mullahs in Iran who are using their peoples' oil wealth to enrich a few select families, spread terror throughout the world, and develop nuclear weapons. Similarly, the paper has condemned the President for his reluctance to do business with the group of thugs masquerading as the Palestinian Authority.
 
Now, hypocritically, the New York Times takes to task the President for doing precisely what they have advocated he do: engage terror regimes. In this case, the nation is the long—shunned  Libya and its mercurial leader Colonel Muammar el—Qaddafi. In A May 4th editorial, found here, the paper denigrates one of President Bush's most significant accomplishments this year: the seeming denunciation of terror by Libya and its disclosure of WMD programs. This development was a result, in part, of President Bush's forcefulness regarding Iraq and has lead to the unraveling of a nuclear export business run by Pakistan.
 
Can't the New York Times EVER give the President credit, even when it follows the directives they have sent out?

 

Posted by Ed  05 05 04