Posted on 12/03/2006 2:27:57 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
AS SECRETARY of state from 1989 to 1992, James Baker was involved in some of the worst foreign-policy blunders of the first Bush administration.
One such blunder was the stubborn refusal to support independence for the long-subjugated republics of the Soviet Union, culminating in the president's notorious "Chicken Kiev" speech urging Ukrainians to stay in their Soviet cage. Another was the appeasement of Syrian dictator Hafez Assad during the run up to the 1991 Gulf War, when Bush and Baker blessed Syria's brutal occupation of Lebanon in exchange for Assad's acquiescence in the campaign to undo Iraq's occupation of Kuwait.
When Chinese tanks massacred students in Tiananmen Square, Bush declared: "I don't think we ought to judge the whole People's Liberation Army by that terrible incident." When Bosnia was torn apart by violence in 1992, the Bush-Baker reaction was to shrug it off as "a hiccup."
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That's just it though--if Bush had remained decisive in actions, crushing the insurgents, capturing or killing the fat boy Sadr and demolishing his Mahdi Army when it was little more than an armed gang, patrolling the Iran/Iraq border with A-10's and attack choppers and annihilating a few dozen caravans of Iranian cockroaches, likewise with the Syrian border, nobody over there would even notice what the 'rats are talking about. They'd all be too busy trying to prove to Bush that they were our longlost stalwart friends.
Or is it, "Your indifferent to the racism and anti-Semitism that is Islamofascism?"
Mark
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