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03-16-2003, 01:08 AM
<span style='font-family:shannon'>Cowboy president?
High Noon actually isn't a bad model for leaders forced into war
By Marvin Olasky
It's always darkest before the dawn? On March 12, just when war seemed inevitable, an e-mail press release arrived with this scintillating lead: "His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi proclaimed that his global efforts to establish 3,000 Peace Palaces in the world's largest 3,000 cities will crown humanity with its rightful destiny—to live in permanent peace."
Is that good news, or what? Construction is scheduled to begin on the Peace Palaces within a few months, and "Each Peace Palace will be home to 100 to 200 peace-creating experts." The result, the Maharishi said, will be "a prevention-oriented, problem-free administration in every country. Then every government will be supremely successful, and no one will suffer in any way whatsoever. Life will be a blissful play."
Life was a blissful play at many Western European and coastal American media offices last week. Journalists love a villain, and "cowboy president" George W. Bush was it. As of March 12 Lexis-Nexis showed 127 articles published within the previous 90 days that contained Bush and High Noon. Almost 800 articles from the previous month alone included the words Bush and cowboy. The New York Times was, as usual, larding its headlines with journalistic ventriloquism: "To Some in Europe, the Major Problem Is Bush the Cowboy."
but after 12 years of Iraqi noncompliance that case is weak, and waiting further is likely to mean more killing, not less (http://www.worldmag.com/world/issue/03-15-03/opening_2.asp)</span>
High Noon actually isn't a bad model for leaders forced into war
By Marvin Olasky
It's always darkest before the dawn? On March 12, just when war seemed inevitable, an e-mail press release arrived with this scintillating lead: "His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi proclaimed that his global efforts to establish 3,000 Peace Palaces in the world's largest 3,000 cities will crown humanity with its rightful destiny—to live in permanent peace."
Is that good news, or what? Construction is scheduled to begin on the Peace Palaces within a few months, and "Each Peace Palace will be home to 100 to 200 peace-creating experts." The result, the Maharishi said, will be "a prevention-oriented, problem-free administration in every country. Then every government will be supremely successful, and no one will suffer in any way whatsoever. Life will be a blissful play."
Life was a blissful play at many Western European and coastal American media offices last week. Journalists love a villain, and "cowboy president" George W. Bush was it. As of March 12 Lexis-Nexis showed 127 articles published within the previous 90 days that contained Bush and High Noon. Almost 800 articles from the previous month alone included the words Bush and cowboy. The New York Times was, as usual, larding its headlines with journalistic ventriloquism: "To Some in Europe, the Major Problem Is Bush the Cowboy."
but after 12 years of Iraqi noncompliance that case is weak, and waiting further is likely to mean more killing, not less (http://www.worldmag.com/world/issue/03-15-03/opening_2.asp)</span>