You can spin it to say that the Bush Administration dismissed Hart-Ruddman but the the reality is that they, like all of Washington, the media, and the public, ignored it. The Bush Administration knew that pre-9/11 implementaion of HR would be impossible and a political hot potato, a loser for whoever pushed it. In fact, they ignored HR even after 9/11, waiting for momentum in Congress. Then, preempting Lieberman, they got out in front of it to shape it as they saw fit.
Instead of hints, you might try links. As it has been pointed out on this thread, there is a long world history of preemption, and by definition, that would include interdiction.
Here is a link which addresses what real conservatives think of what is going on. There has been a change in US foreign policy and it is time that that issue becomes the debate. Unless or until we talk about the real issues the solutions will not come.
I would post the whole thing but I'm not sure if that is ok with the Washington Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A38891-2003Aug9¬Found=true A Debate Over U.S. 'Empire' Builds in Unexpected Circles
By Dan Morgan
Sunday, August 10, 2003; Page A03
At forums sponsored by policy think tanks, on radio talk shows and around Cleveland Park dinner tables, one topic has been hotter than the weather in Washington this summer: Has the United States become the very "empire" that the republic's founders heartily rejected?
Liberal scholars have been raising the question but, more strikingly, so have some Republicans with impeccable conservative credentials.
For example, C. Boyden Gray, former counsel to President George H.W. Bush, has joined a small group that is considering ways to "educate Americans about the dangers of empire and the need to return to our founding traditions and values," according to an early draft of a proposed mission statement.
"Rogue Nation," a new book by former Reagan administration official Clyde Prestowitz, president of the Washington-based Economic Strategy Institute, contains a chapter that dubs the United States "The Unacknowledged Empire." And at the Nixon Center in Washington, established in 1994 by former president Richard M. Nixon, President Dimitri K. Simes is preparing a magazine-length essay that will examine the "American imperial predicament."