"As the Bush Doctrine has come under attack, there are those in America who have welcomed its apparent setbacks and defeats as a vindication of their criticism of the policy. But the problem is that that kind of vindication leaves America in a position where there are no good alternatives. The reason that there is general despair now is because if it proves to be true that the Bush Doctrine has proclaimed an idea of democratizing the Arab/Islamic world that is unattainable and undoable, then there are no remaining answers to how to counter ultimately the threat of Islamic radicalism."
Which will grow here.
The problem is the likes of the Clintonistas who et al. who are Europeans at heart. They are a product of the Vietnam era, and like Jimmy Carter, are unhappy that the collapse of the Soviet Union left no one to check the United States. They thought of it as the guarantor of a socialist Europe. Carter's greatest "triumph" was the Israel-Egyptian detent3, which--ironically wass the work of Sadat, not Carter. Carter wanted to join the Soviet Union to contain Israel. By reaching out to Israel, Sadat frustrated this scheme. Carter, of course, took the glory, but he has never ceased to work against Israel.