Posted on 07/08/2006 8:46:28 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
In the span of four years, the Bush Administration has been forced to rethink the pre-emptive "Bush doctrine" by which it hoped to remake the world, as the strategy's ineffectiveness was exposed by the very policies it prescribed, TIME's Mike Allen and Romesh Ratnesar report in this weeks cover story on 'The End of Cowboy Diplomacy' on newsstands Monday, July 9th.
President George W. Bush came to office pledging to focus on domestic issues and pursue a "humble" foreign policy that would avoid the entanglements of the Bill Clinton years. After Sept. 11, however, the Bush team embarked on a different path, outlining a muscular, idealistic, and unilateralist vision of American power and how to use it, TIME reports. They aimed to lay the foundation for a grand strategy to fight Islamic terrorists and rogue states, by spreading democracy around the world and pre-empting gathering threats before they materialize. And the U.S. wasn't willing to wait for others to help. The approach fit with Bush's personal style, his self-professed proclivity to dispense with the nuances of geopolitics and go with his gut. "The Bush Doctrine is actually being defined by action, as opposed to by words," Bush told Tom Brokaw aboard Air Force One in 2003.
The swaggering Commander in Chief who embodied the doctrine's aspirations has modulated himself too. At a press conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair in May, Bush swore off the Wild West rhetoric of getting enemies "dead or alive," conceding, "in certain parts of the world, it was misinterpreted." Bush's response to the North Korean missile test was equally revealing. Under the old Bush Doctrine, defiance by a dictator like Kim Jong Il would have merited threats of punitive U.S. action-or at least a tongue lashing. Instead, the Administration has mainly been talking up multilateralism and downplaying Pyongyang's provocation. As much as anything, it's confirmation of what Princeton political scientist Gary J. Bass calls "doctrinal flameout." Put another way: cowboy diplomacy, RIP.
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TIME Magazine - designed for people who can't think.
Yeah....this article's retarded..
"TIME Magazine - designed for people who can't think."
Yup.
And getting more irrelevant every day.
No time!
I think they wrote this exact same story about Reagan and the U.S.S.R. back in 1985.
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The defeated liberal media is pathetic beyond belief. They simply cannot get it right, not for a single time. They always analyze the news and publish what they see in their wet dreams and delusional world.
Thank God we didn't have the 24/7 lib media during WWII..we would be living under axis rule..
NK shoots!
They don't miss!
They hit DEMselves in the inept foot!
GWB's end game starts after the November election.
Next time I visit the dentist I'll look around for this magazine, unless there's a Highlights for Children that somebody didn't circle all the stuff in the Hidden Pictures.
"War must be as intense and awful as possible in order to
make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors"----Napolean
The thing is, they aren't defeated. Like the mujihadeen, leftist sentiment seems to be incapable of admitting it is beaten, and so they fight on even when by all objective standards the battle is lost. They will never give up. Even if they are pushed away from the mainstream, the leftist movement will return to the underground and await its next opportunity.
Time and the NYT will not be satisfied until corpses lie scattered around and in the NYT building, will they. What jerkoffs.
Agree. They will never admit defeat despite that in the real world they have been defeated long time ago.
Perhaps Time needs to worry more about whether its own "doctrine" is irrelevant....
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