Bloggings by boz

Andres Martinez in today's LA Times writes of the US refusal to cut agricultural subsidies until other nations do the same.

It's absurd. Bush didn't wait for France to sign off on the invasion of Iraq; he certainly shouldn't wait for France to sign off on a dismantling of U.S. farm subsidies that give domestic cotton, rice, sugar and other crops an unfair leg up in global competition. Waiting around for Europe and Japan to accept trade liberalization in agricultural goods could be a decades-long exercise. Besides, it is an abdication of American leadership.

He makes the argument the US should preemptively and unilaterally cut our agricultural subsidies. And he taunts the administration for putting an American policy into the hands of the French government. How can I not like it?