Nation's Most Important Foreign-Policy Doctrines Forged To Justify Mistake

[kerrygoddess]

Nation's Most Important Foreign-Policy Doctrines Forged To Justify and Defend a Mistake
22 March 2005

Peter S. Canellos, the Boston Globe's Washington bureau chief, has a telling view on Bush’s legacy in today’s Boston Globe.

He asserts that the “Decision to go to war in Iraq defines Bush presidency.” Nothing we haven't already figured out, but there's some interesting insight into hints Bush gave during his first reign. Here’s a few quips, but I recommend reading the entire piece.

Bush's skepticism of international alliances and institutions -- now the most striking facet of his foreign policy --was hardly visible before that decision. The earlier war against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan had been a model of painstaking international cooperation, with hostilities delayed until the United States could coordinate with a loose group of rebels known as the Northern Alliance.

http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/default.asp?view=plink&id=599

[applegrove]

1. I think he wanted to set a precedent of going to war not for human rights.

The human rights precedent was sort of set.


Neocons need the threat of War based on strategic pre-pre-emption to be carved out of a little bit of stone.

Poor Bush. It seems nobody told him that you only get the accolades for going to war and being right... if you were right on your 'original reasons' for going to war.

Ha ha ha ha
:cry:

[Wilms]

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