ラッシュ・リンボウがオバマ大統領を絶賛!?
アメリカの政治というのは、懐が深い。
これまで口を極めてオバマ大統領を罵ってきたリンボウ氏。
オサマ・ビン・ラディン殺害作戦に示した大統領の決断力を素直に賞賛する。
丸腰で抵抗もしなかったアルカイダの親分を殺してしまうというのが優れた決断とは、全然思わない。
だけど、事の是非はともあれ、リンボウ氏が示したスカっとした姿勢は気持ちがいい。
いかに憎むべき政敵であっても、みずからの価値観に照らして「諒とする」のであれば、これまでの経緯を捨てて素直に評価する。
政治というゲームには、プレイヤーがスポーツマンシップのようなスカっとした精神を共有することが必須の条件なのかも。
それからすると、日本政治はゲームにもならない。
Rush Limbaugh said President Obama deserved “congratulation” for the death of Osama bin Laden. (NOTE: This story has been updated. See below.)
“We need to open the program today by congratulating President Obama,” he said on his Monday show. “President Obama has done something extremely effective, and when he does, this needs to be pointed out.”
The effectiveness, he said, came from President Obama’s decision to send a Special Forces team to kill bin Laden—something he said, citing news reports, that none of the president’s military advisers had thought of doing.
“Our military wanted to go in there and just scorch the earth…but President Obama single-handedly understood what was at stake here. He alone understood the need to get DNA to prove the death…it was President Obama single-handedly and alone who came up with the strategy that brought about the effective assassination of Osama bin Laden,” he said, adding, “thank God for President Obama.”
Of course, Limbaugh said this with more than a grain of sarcastic salt (see update below for more). He made clear that, in part, it was Obama’s continuation of President Bush’s military and detention policies that provided the intelligence which led to bin Laden’s killing. (He also made the by-now-common gaffe of swtiching Obama’s and bin Laden’s names around in his sentences.)
