Not Your Sweetie

Mesg #340305 "My favorite analogy: Bush = Leopoldo Galtieri"
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Dictator of Argentina. A dim-witted tool who launched the invasion of the Falkland Islands as a distraction from economic malaise, cronyism and incompetence.
Excerpts from The Economist's obituary:
Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, a failed dictator, died on January 12th, 2003 aged 76
He might have been forgiven by at least some of his fellow Argentines for his ruthlessness, but not for his stupidity.
Incompetence in civilian life, in commerce or in the professions, can have serious consequences. In government it can be disastrous, as it was for Argentina in 1982, when General Galtieri was the unelected military president. Argentina was going through one of its regular periods of high inflation and poor growth...Day after day crowds gathered outside the presidential palace to jeer at the general. The protests were largely forgotten when he announced that Argentina was to seize the Falklands, a small group of islands in the south Atlantic that had been a British possession since 1833.
Such a patriotic gesture is an old remedy, and has had a degree of success. Hitler reinforced his popularity by sending troops into the Rhineland in 1936 against French wishes. These days Pakistan's self-appointed president, General Musharraf, is routinely bellicose towards India.
Britain, under Margaret Thatcher, buckled on its rusty armour and dispatched every warship, troopship and rowing boat available to the Falklands, 13,000km away....On June 14th the Argentines surrendered.
There seems to be no dispute that high office fazed him. “Only Johnny Walker is crying”, was the headline in a Buenos Aires newspaper in a reference to the general's dependence on Scotch whisky.
When he joined the army as a young man he was interested in military engineering, and probably his ambitions should have stopped there. While a lieutenant he was noticed by American advisers attached to the Argentine army and in 1949 attended the School of the Americas...He is believed to be the only student in the history of the school to have failed the course.
“What most puzzles me”, says Oscar Raul Cardoso, an Argentine political analyst, “is how someone so mediocre in all senses reached the top.” Could it happen again? The answer is probably yes, again and again.