.Disagree. Since 9/11 the Bush foreign policy has been as idealistically liberal and progressive as this country has ever had.
Leftists like Chris Hitchens have recognized this nd by supporting Bush's policies, have been nothing but consistent.
I think Sharon and Bush have been on the same page from the get go.
Kadima? It's a good name because Sharon is not playing the status quo game of the Peres crowd; he's moving forward by disengaging Israel from their neighbors.
I agree that sometimes conservatives have used the word "forward." Indeed, any sensible conservative knows you can't return to the past. All movement in time is toward the future, and forward is a good term to appeal to America's characteristic optimism.
Still, this is mostly a matter of taking back a useful word from the progressives, who have a kind of Darwinian or Marxist religious belief in progress for the sake of progress. Conservatives should have no objections to real improvement, for example technological improvement, but the idea that we can progress toward some political Utopia has usually been the chief political meaning of the words forward and progress. When conservatives use such terms, they are mostly trying to wrestle them away from liberals for propaganda purposes.