Posted on 07/11/2006 9:34:46 PM PDT by churchillbuff
"We'll be deliberate, yet time is not on our side," [Bush] said in one of the most-quoted passages of what became the signature speech of his administration. "I will not wait on events, while dangers gather."...
Yet to some conservatives who backed Mr. Bush's decision in Iraq, "standing by and waiting" is the essence of Mr. Bush's current strategy.
Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute wrote in The Wall Street Journal after North Korea's missile tests last week that North Korea had achieved more "strategic successes" under the Bush administration than it had under President Clinton.
"Apparently unwilling to move against North Korea's nuclear challenges by itself, and evidently incapable of fashioning a practical response involving allies and others, the Bush administration's response to Pyongyang's atomic provocations is today principally characterized by renewed calls for additional rounds of toothless conference diplomacy," he wrote.
This weekend in The Weekly Standard, William Kristol, another prominent conservative voice, wrote: "The red lines, pink lines, and mauve lines of U.S. foreign policy seem increasingly to be written in erasable ink. What was 'unacceptable' to President Bush a week ago (a North Korean missile launch) has been accepted." He called the current policy "Clintonian."
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Nice try : ) Why don't you quit worrying about me, and continue posting your innocuous drivel.
It's not a "try."
It's the forum rules from the Admin Moderator.
Take a hint.
You're very rude.
Tick tock.
"W's foreign policy has been brilliant so far"
Yep. He should try using some brilliance at home, though.
And you and Howlin are the epitome of kindness and gentleness with people who disagree with you.........
R O T F L M B O
Bump
Don't bother reading any further; the thread is ruined, which I'm sure is the desired outcome.
Disagreement has nothing to do with it -- you're a troll, taking left handed swipes at President Bush while pretending you're a supporter of his.
Very transparent and very rude.
You are as phony as a $3 bill.
I see where this thread is going. Too bad.
Isn't it.
It's a new "breed" of poster.
He's dead Jim
Amen
He;s getting a well deserved timeout or a permanent vacation.
Thank you, Southack!
He'll just come back again with yet another nickname.
TIME OUT CALLED>>LOL!
5,4,3,2,1 Is he on LP yet?
This is a much more subtle approach:
" I was talking to Zsa Zsa and Muffy the other day about the lack of immigration policy in the Bush administation. Muuffy said she agreed with (insert name)and its interesting that this column quotes him/her about (fill in the blank)
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