Most definitely.
Posted on 09/06/2008 4:24:57 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Bush Owes His Successor A Tough Finish on Foreign Policy
By JOHN R. BOLTON
September 6, 2008; Page A11
As the Bush administration enters its last months, its pursuit of a "legacy," especially in foreign policy, becomes ever more frenetic.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's travel schedule is packed. State Department "signing ceremonies" are blossoming, even for agreements that would not have attracted high-level attention just last year. Editorial writers are being quietly encouraged to laud administration successes.
While neither unique nor unexpected, the legacy frenzy masks what should be our real concern until Jan. 20, 2009: the risk of a vulnerable administration making significant, unforced errors and concessions that will burden America well into the future. As our attention turns to a presidential election in two short months, the U.S. is entering a period of vulnerability made more dangerous by the administration's provocative weakness.
Consider first what the State Department sees as one of its greatest successes: North Korea's nuclear weapons program. True to form, Pyongyang recently complained that the U.S. had not taken the final steps to remove it from our list of state sponsors of terrorism. Sadly, but also typically, State Department insiders believe that North Korea has a point, given the waterfall of concessions State has already made.
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Ping!
As usual, Bolton is a genius.
What a great appeal that I believe will sadly fall on deaf hears.
The loss of Bolton from this administration was a big one.
Who knows whats (secretly) going on in Taliban land or throughout Iraq or even inside Iran that we don't get to know until much later when all is wrapped up...and even then not the details.
It's like guardian angels: we have no clue today what harm we were protected from or what bullet we dodged?
For good or ill, his legacy is Iraq, and a job unfinished elsewhere.
He DID bash Christopher Hill, chief State negotiator who sold out to the Norkies, which as justified. But against Condi? No.
Of course, THIS WILL INFLAME THE BUSHBOTS, the CONDIBOTS and probably a good section of the McCAINBOTS WHO MORPHED FROM BUSHBOTS I suspect, but God Bless Ambassador John Bolton, he is a good guy.
All of the aforementioned factions always came to the support of sellout deals with North Korea over the last two years under this Republican Administration, following in the path of the Democrats before them, and bashed us Korea watchers and experts on FR for speaking up about it.
Thanks Tiger. The appeasement is going to get worse in the next few months...I know Obama wont oppose it. Let us see what John McCain will say. Probably the only one who has a private opinion that this is all rubbish is Sarah Palin.
Yeah credits is due to Chia Pet even he is dicataor who keep getting goof on by the Freepers
Very interesting.
A hundred years from now Bush, like his father before him, will be viewed as failures by presidential historians. He won’t quite rank below Clinton, Carter of modern adminstrations and well about the very bottom (Pierce, Buchanan, Filmore, Andrew Johnson, Hoover and Warren G. Harding) but nowhere near the top: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Reagan, et al.
His continued support of Condi is an indication of that. Without 9/11, his main project has been the "Open Border" and bringing Hispanics into GOP, just as he did while he was a Texas Governor.
I wish he persevered. I really hoped that he would succeed.
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