She's all wrong on this, and now she's recalcitrant at that. President Bush's speech is shaking the world. It's an end to 70 years of foreign policy strategy that worsened at Yalta, and ended when we realized that letting down the Shi'a in 1991 was costing us the peace in an already conquered Iraq in 2003.
This isn't about winning a war, or winning one peace. This is about changing the minds of people around the world who think we're willing to be on the wrong side for our own convenience.
President Bush announced to the world: if you're a tyrant "keeping regional instability at bay," the USA is no longer going to be your friend. From Cairo to Banda Aceh, one speech rekindled hopes for freedom that the Cold War had long since smothered.
I agree with her. The United States should not be the policeman of the world. We should be engaged but Bush's vision will lead to the loss of more privacy and civil liberties. I am glad we invaded Iraq. Let's finish the job there and Afghanistan; that's quite enough.
Bush's administration cut in half the number of F-22s that we are going to buy. That is a huge mistake of Clintonian proportions.