Posted on 10/01/2005 12:03:37 AM PDT by F14 Pilot
On January 20, 2005, George W. Bush outlined the goal of his second term. "It is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world," he said. "All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: the United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you."
Less than a year later, the Bush doctrine is dead, the victim not of outside circumstances, but rather lack of will and ineptness. While Bush may be sincere, across the Middle East, his administration's willingness to sacrifice those seeking freedom has become legendary.
Take Libya: On March 12, 2004, Bush declared, "We stand with courageous reformers ... Earlier today, the Libyan government released Fathi el-Jahmi. He's a local government official who was imprisoned in 2002 for advocating free speech and democracy. It's an encouraging step toward reform in Libya. You probably have heard, Libya is beginning to change her attitude about a lot of things.
Actually, Libyan strongman Muammar Qadhafi had not changed. Two weeks later, Libyan security rearrested Jahmi. Across the Middle East, analysts saw Qadhafi's actions as a challenge to Bush. The President responded not by tying rapprochement to El-Jahmi's freedom, but with impotence. As El-Jahmi rots in prison, denied medical care for his diabetes, the U.S. Treasury Department grants waivers to allow billions of dollars of U.S. investment in Libya. According to the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will endorse Qadhafi's reign with a November visit to Tripoli.
The liberation of Iraq demonstrated that after years of effete diplomacy, the White House meant what it said. Bush reversed that victory.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
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Michael Rubin of the American Enterpise Institute....... Nuff Said
the msm
Rome was not built in a day. The Bush doctrine is not dead. Some people's inelastic brains are, though.
Only the left wing loons who put their quest for power above the good of the world are who believe this drivel. The Taliban, Saddam Hussain, Kaleed Shiek Mohammad and scores of other Terrorists and the organizations they represent are still feeling the pain of the "Bush Doctrine" The only pain the left feels has been at the ballot box, after all, that's all that counts to them and the past 5 years is proof
Michael Rubin - charter member of the Donner Party and professional hand wringer.
Snicker...
The doctrine is NOT dead, liberalism via their media whores are sure hoping to kill it.
BINGO, Is he the same Michael Rubin who worked for John Kerry?
That's right. How are you doin'? I saw on the other thread where you were still battling it out with some kind of bug or something...
I'm doing great, is Michael Rubin the guy I am thinking he is?
Michael Rubin is not the guy who I thought he was :-(
Think I should go to bed now.....
You're on the Left Coast, It's early over there, it's 3:35 AM here and I'm good for at least 30 or 40 seconds :-)
You might mean Robert Rubin who worked for Clinton & Kerry.
Michael Rubin sometimes writes for the New Republic and is a fellow of the American Enterpise Institute.
Bio here-
http://www.aei.org/scholars/filter.all,scholarID.83/scholar.asp
Thanks, New Republic is all I need to know
So, is this Fathi el-Jahmi an American citizen or something? How exactly is Bush diminshed by not pulling this guy's bacon out of the fire?
I understand Ha'aretz is Israel's equivalent of the New York Times, so from our point of view, they're part of the problem, aren't they?
Seiously...let's finish a battle before moving on to the next. By my count, we've won two major battles and are fighting a third, which is nearer the end than the beginning.
WW2 was not lost the day we didn't take Berlin, and that's my new tagline for a while.
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