P! Update: Transparency, Diplomacy, The New Cold War

Posted on May 28, 2008

Politico has the exclusive on former White House press secretary Scott McClellan’s tell-all book, What Happened: McClellan Whacks Bush, White House. (Ah, the ingratitude!)

At the Washington Independent, Arthur Allen examines the Bush Definition of Transparency: ‘To most of us, “transparent” means something you can see into… When brought up to describe toxics regulation, “transparent” might mean that the public could see the paper trail providing the scientific justification behind it. But the White House seems to have found another definition of “transparent.” It means a process that the White House can see into.’

The Women’s International Perspective notes that these days, Diplomacy is a Dirty Word. ‘In the heads of men like John McCain and George Bush international relations are bi-polar. It’s “us” and “them,” whether they are terrorists, aging communist societies, or Islamo-fascists. We’ll never talk to “them” until they surrender to “us.” Until then, we’ll keep on invading, killing, confining, blockading, and torturing.

Democracy Arsenal delves into McCain’s Disjointed Russian Policy: ‘Just two months ago in Los Angeles when he laid out his view of the world, he suggested tossing Russia out of the G8 – a needlessly provocative act that would essentially mark the start of a new Cold War in Europe…  Does he really think that he can alienate the Russians and at the same time get their cooperation on critical nuclear issues? Is he that divorced from reality?’ (Let’s just say he’s estranged from reality.)

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