Posted on 07/26/2006 9:28:59 AM PDT by Reagan Man
It is common now to charge that the invasion of Iraq was a moment where America's ambitions surpassed its abilities. Various articles have surfaced of late declaring that even President George W. Bush may be grasping the folly of his ways. A great deal of attention earlier this month focused on a Time magazine cover story declaring "The End of Cowboy Diplomacy." The July/August issue of Foreign Affairs contains a piece entitled "The End of the Bush Revolution," as well as an essay by Joseph Nye proclaiming that the Bush Administration's transformational foreign policy is unlikely to survive. But has the Bush Doctrine discredited itself? The facts speak for themselves.
Following the overthrow of the Taliban and with American action inevitable in Iraq, the question of empire surfaced both in the United States and abroad with regards to America's power and far-reaching ambitions. At the time, this drew proponents of an assertive foreign policy to offer the historical example of William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt's leadership in the Spanish-American War of 1898 and the Filipino insurgency that followed. More recently, this same period of history has been presented by detractors of American involvement in Iraq as an example of presidents who had radically altered American foreign policy and engaged the country in a prolonged struggle as they fell to the temptation of overreach.
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The Bush bashers out in full force. If event of the past wek have proven anything it is that Iraq was not a mistake. Saddam isnt shooting scuds at Israel as he did in the past, Islamics have shown their true colors in Iran ,Iraq and the Middle east . They want to bury the world in Islamic horsecrap and the trip the US made to Iraq was only the start. too abd the rest of the world doesnt have to courage to make their stand with us instead make The US carry the load, and kiss islamic ass in the hope they will be put off till last. For indeed their time is coming.
The Bush bashers out in full force. If events of the past week have proven anything it is that Iraq was not a mistake. Saddam isnt shooting scuds at Israel as he did in the past, Islamics have shown their true colors in Iran ,Iraq and the Middle east . They want to bury the world in Islamic horsecrap and the trip the US made to Iraq was only the start of what it takes to stop them.. Too bad the rest of the world doesnt have to courage to make their stand with us instead making The US carry the load, and they kiss Islamic ass in the hope they will be put off till last. For indeed their time is coming.
If the rest of Europe had joined us this whole mess would be over now.
Phone calls to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi still remained unreturned at press time.
Socialist second -guessers keep on baying at the moon.
Good,bad,wise,foolish--- we are engaged and we will prevail, regardless of the disloyalty of the far left among us.
Isolating on Iraq is idiotic in light of the conflagration that now confronts us on so many other fronts.
Democrat shame continues to embarrass our nation.
You forgot the "Barf Alert".
.. ask me in 30 years.
Iraq will join some other Arab League nations in condemning Hizbollah's attacks on Israel, Iraq's foreign minister told U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday, as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki addressed a joint meeting of Congress.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari told lawmakers that Iraq will join Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt in condemning Hizbollah, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada told reporters.
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***A solidlly united USA would be respected around the world but when our schools and media do nothing but bash the USA we get what you see throughout the world**
What do you mean the schools and media do nothing but bash the USA??? They have increased the number of homosexuals ten fold in the last ten years.
There are multiple justifications for the war in Iraq, but the newest one is that the presence of American troops on three sides of Iran and two sides of Syria guarantees that Israel's confrontation with Hezbollah won't grow into a wider war.
Perhaps a bit more "over reaching" against the appeasers objections would have started the war against Saddam PRIOR to the movements of WMD to the Bekaa valley. The current barrage of Hezbollah against Israel probably would never have happened...
Heh.
That does not seem to have stopped liberal theorists from re-employing a somewhat discredited concept, and so they have. Imperial Overstretch: George W. Bush and the Hubris of Empire takes up where Kennedy left off and given the latest developments in the Middle East, is just as unfortunately timed. One is naturally a little suspicious of a book whose reviewers throw around cliches such as "foreign policy hijacked by the neocons" and "petro-military complex" but I thought I'd give it a look. Not a purchase, fortunately. Caveat emptor.
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