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Bush's Shift: Being Patient With Foes (Wm Kristol call Bush policy "Clintonian")
New York Times ^ | July 9 06 | David Sanger

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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To: John Lenin

Worse than that, even.


41 posted on 07/11/2006 10:23:41 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Howlin

I think if we all just ignore the "programmed posters" that always have the needle stuck on one subject they would go away..but maybe not..

In the meantime..General Kristol holds forth. yawn.


42 posted on 07/11/2006 10:24:35 PM PDT by MEG33 (In Memory of Maggie Marine, LadyX....)
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To: duckln
They are having an ice-skating party in Hell....

We are in complete agreement, for the second time. :-)

43 posted on 07/11/2006 10:25:09 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Southack
...back in 1998 under President Clinton when Madeline Albright and her anti-nuclear leftists were gleefully offering to build a free nuclear reactor for North Korea in North Korea.

Paid for by "We, The Taxpayers".

44 posted on 07/11/2006 10:25:14 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
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To: Texasforever


LOL! You look...lol.


45 posted on 07/11/2006 10:26:05 PM PDT by onyx (Deport the trolls --- send them back to DU)
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To: COEXERJ145

LOL..love that !


46 posted on 07/11/2006 10:27:01 PM PDT by MEG33 (In Memory of Maggie Marine, LadyX....)
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To: Howlin


I'm sure this wasn;t his first.


47 posted on 07/11/2006 10:27:10 PM PDT by onyx (Deport the trolls --- send them back to DU)
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To: churchillbuff

Ron Popeil Look-Alike BUMP!


48 posted on 07/11/2006 10:27:44 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
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To: churchillbuff

Sigh. I had to look at the calendar to make sure it wasn't 1986 again.

Same song, Same dance, different decade.


49 posted on 07/11/2006 10:28:31 PM PDT by pollyannaish
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To: woofie

GOOD! :-)


50 posted on 07/11/2006 10:28:51 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: onyx; Texasforever

Probably under a different screen name. He's slammed LP here at FR.


51 posted on 07/11/2006 10:34:30 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
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To: BigSkyFreeper; Texasforever


He was very rude.


52 posted on 07/11/2006 10:36:41 PM PDT by onyx (Deport the trolls --- send them back to DU)
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To: onyx

I saw him post here the last few days, but we never crossed paths. I do concur, he was very rude.


53 posted on 07/11/2006 10:39:15 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
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To: MEG33
General Kristol...lol. And what's the left going to say now that a leading neo-con reveals that the President isn't a neo-con. It's like musical chairs with these people...the only one holding steady is the President himself.
54 posted on 07/11/2006 10:41:24 PM PDT by Dolphy
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To: woofie
:)
55 posted on 07/11/2006 10:44:52 PM PDT by Dolphy
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Spoken like a true libnut. Are you sucking on your pacifier and wearing your koolaid stained bib?

I thought we had pest control for Barking Moonbats?


56 posted on 07/11/2006 10:57:42 PM PDT by GLH3IL (What's good for America is bad for liberals.)
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To: All

has anybody said this is a Old York Slimes article? i rest my case. much more of the same old twisted slant to slam POTUS. not worth arguing with that dude slammin Bush.if he believes anything in this putris publication, you know where he's at.


57 posted on 07/11/2006 11:11:47 PM PDT by RacerX1128
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To: pissant; onyx
He is like a pesky flea, without the charm.

Andrea Mitchell is Barbra Steisand on peyote.

Gloria Borger is Andrea Mitchell on Peyote.

Katrina vanden Heuvel is Gloria Borger on peyote.

And Bill Kristol is Billy Crystal without the charm, wit and decency.

58 posted on 07/12/2006 1:07:20 AM PDT by beyond the sea (Sean Vanity --- Exciting, Exclusive New Developments in the Duke Rape Case -- BARF)
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To: beyond the sea

Accurate descriptions. LOL


59 posted on 07/12/2006 7:17:26 AM PDT by pissant
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To: churchillbuff

'Toothless conference diplomacy' is the what the NY Times advocates whenever any world problem comes up. How dare they act like they are against it now.


60 posted on 07/12/2006 3:16:08 PM PDT by Democratshavenobrains
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