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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Worse than that, even.
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.
We are in complete agreement, for the second time. :-)
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LOL! You look...lol.
LOL..love that !
I'm sure this wasn;t his first.
Ron Popeil Look-Alike BUMP!
Sigh. I had to look at the calendar to make sure it wasn't 1986 again.
Same song, Same dance, different decade.
GOOD! :-)
Probably under a different screen name. He's slammed LP here at FR.
He was very rude.
I saw him post here the last few days, but we never crossed paths. I do concur, he was very rude.
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?
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.
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.
Accurate descriptions. LOL
'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.
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