Posted on 12/06/2006 2:06:31 PM PST by Sabramerican
JOHN Bolton's resignation as the American ambassador to the United Nations makes it official: The Bush administration is now drifting idly toward a mixture of centrism and impotence.
In less than a month, two of President Bush's stronger and more independent aides - Donald Rumsfeld and Bolton - have been dispatched. Rumsfeld's designated successor, former CIA head Robert Gates, is a leading member of the Beltway's permanent bureaucracy.
The administration seems to be waiting for the Baker-Hamilton commission of old Washington hands to dictate U.S. policy on Iraq. Leaks from the commission suggest it will recommend a gradual U.S. withdrawal camouflaged by negotiations with Iran and Syria over a new Mideast grand bargain.
All of this feeds an exaggerated defeatism in the United States over Iraq.
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Rumsfeld's abrupt firing was an act of flagrant disloyalty to a loyal subordinate. The defense secretary had made his share of mistakes - notably, his failure to crush looting immediately after the fall of Baghdad - but he had followed the president's policy faithfully.
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We don't know for certain the reasons for Bolton's departure: Either the White House wasn't prepared to fight for him, or he was no longer prepared to lend his voice to the diplomatic charade over Iran and North Korea. Either way, his departure demonstrates timidity on the administration's part. The net result will be that Bush has one less loyal subordinate in the shrinking ranks of his own administration.
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This shall be held up as the most reasoned and cogent reply on this thread. Such irrefutable logic and analysis is simply stunning.
LOL>......see, great minds and all that!
Actually, no.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1749376/posts
That will surely make you smile.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1749376/posts
~LOL~.. telepathy.
How sad for me that you "get it," and I don't "get it," (along with William F. Buckley, George Will, Jeffrey Hart, Jonah Goldberg, and many other conservative pundidts) but, one assumes because of your busy schedule and all the demands on your time, you're unable at present to take a few moments to help me "get it." As I say, how terribly sad. I really wanted to know why we went to war.
I really wanted to know how marching our kids around in bullet-proof vests in Fallujah benefits and makes more secure the people of the United States of America.
Dont ever doubt that b*tch Klinton. She is very dangerous.SHe'll have the media on a full scale propaganda campaign to elect her. They will brainwash the already sleeping American public.
Islam will dominate this country in 10 years .
How disgusting.
An epiphany in the making, perhaps. Here is a quote from a poor mentally tortured soul "Everybody else in the community room hates me now. Just because I agreed with the orderly and they can not play Bridge anymore".
It seems you both are on the same page.......and now so am I.
Wow, within seconds. Are we good or what?? :-)
I wish FR would put up some political candidates......this place is a wellspring for such talent.
Yep.....(smile)
We may never see a man of his stature, character or leadership in the White House again, and millions of us know it.
May the Almighty and Sovereign God who placed him in authority over us continue to guide him and protect him against all enemies foreign and domestic. Amen!
Well, yes, we do; if you don't look at the Crazy Aunts in the closet!
Amen!
Agree.
I was particularly amused by his contrived sophistry regarding the distinction between "victory" and "success".
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