Posted on 11/30/2005 5:39:29 AM PST by SJackson
I'm guessing that before he leaves office, probably next years election time, a victory will be declared, and troops will start coming home.
She is a world class idiot. If the administration looks to her for serious advice or policy they will have gone to war for nothing.
Bush knows what he has to do with Iraq but simply doesn't know how to do it. Generals Sanchez and Abuzaid were feckless choices. Tenet was a failure. He kept on the pathetic Clarke. He moved too slowly to grasp the reins of power at the UN. His NSC is, with one exception, a field of weak reeds. He allowed Powell to rule a congress of leakers at the State Department, and Condoleeza Rice continues in the tradition of using questionably loyal satraps in that miserable "service". Why hasn't Rice cleaned up Consular Affairs?
The question is, who is giving Bush Middle East foreign policy advice? His father? The Brookings Institute? The Institute for Policy Studies? Rice may know something of Russia, but in the Middle East she is a graduate student who needs constant tutoring. Unlike Bush, one never had a doubt where Ronald Reagan stood, and his appointments mirrored that.
You can add to that list the Kerry supporter who has become one of Condi Rice's chief deputies at the State Dept.
Instead of taking the media head on, Bush is letting the media drive him. Reagan never did.
You can see it not only in Iraq but in Israel as well.
Like Clinton, instead of standing fast up to the end, as Reagan did, Bush is thinking about "legacy".
[legacy]
Not only his own, but Clinton's too...
I'll never forgive him for "washing" Clinton.
For anyone with questions about Iraq policy, please go to this link and read the National Security Council's "National Strategy for Victory in Iraq"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/documents/Iraqnationalstrategy11-30-05.pdf
I look upon the FR naysayers much like I do the media they love and believe in! It is easy to see on which side these whiners stand!
LLS
Good for her. Kicking all the Baathists out has created a massive pool of resentment, which has fed the insurgency -- and deprived the government of experienced officials. MacArthur was smarter than Bremer. He refused calls to clean house in Japan. And his regency was much more successful than our occupation of Iraq has been so far.
I think you're right.
Or DOES SHE?
President Bush has recently shown zero resolve to deal with the other unfinished items in the War on Terror. Syria. North Korea. Iran. And his globalist initiatives, FTAA, CAFTA, and the LOST treaty are right down her alley...and his administration kept Thomas PM Barnett on at the Naval War College LONG after it was clear he was a complete loony tune. Only fired when he openly supported John Kerry over Bush during the election last year.
At the end of the day, Bush is a product of the time he came of age (1960s). We thank God for his modest demonstrations of resolve, and pray that he can become fully free of the wrong headedness so characteristic of those who have come of age during the near unreal atmosphere of utopianism which held sway, in the main, from 1945 to 2001.
Appeaser.
There MUST be more to this story than meets the eye because promoting a State Department scumbag Democrat like Meghan O’Sullivan makes no sense on its face.
My guess, we've decided to let Iran go nuclear, and deal with the mullahs. Syria, likely no confrontation there either. Political containment works, doesn't it? It worked with Sadaam.
No, still can't because your link doesn't work.
Can you sumarize what it has to say regarding O'Sullivan, particularly the wisdom of confronting Iran and Syria as opposed to dealing with them in a political context. As we did with Sadaam through the 90s
Yes. They never learn.
Good questions.
I know we need world peace, but I don't know how to achieve it either!!
Got that right.
Gee, the '60s must've been an awfully long decade.
He didn't crawl out of the beer keg until he turned 40.
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