Bush as victim...? I don't think so...
(from the wapo...)
haass makes it sound like all these crises just suddenly popped up out of nowhere...
moisés naím, editor of foreign policy magazine has a different take...
and, as per usual, the wh tries to spin their way out of it...
"the consequences of lack of success are sobering...????" the situation we find ourselves in today is entirely the responsibility of this criminal administration and the consequences to the nation have been piling up at a breathtaking rate ever since the supreme court ratified the creeping coup d'etat on 12 december 2000... Submit To Propeller
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- deteriorating security in Afghanistan and Somalia
- mayhem in the Middle East
- confrontation with Iran
- eroding relations with Russia
- North Korea's long-range missile test
haass makes it sound like all these crises just suddenly popped up out of nowhere...
"I am hard-pressed to think of any other moment in modern times where there have been so many challenges facing this country simultaneously," said Richard N. Haass, a former senior Bush administration official who heads the Council on Foreign Relations. "The danger is that Mr. Bush will hand over a White House to a successor that will face a far messier world, with far fewer resources left to cope with it."
moisés naím, editor of foreign policy magazine has a different take...
"This is a distracted government that has to take care of too many things at the same time and has been consumed by the war on Iraq."
and, as per usual, the wh tries to spin their way out of it...
National security adviser Stephen J. Hadley said in an interview yesterday that such criticism is misplaced, adding that victory in Iraq is crucial to success in fighting terrorists and in creating a new democracy that could serve as a beacon to other Middle Eastern countries. "Is it a major investment? Yes," he said. "The stakes are high [in Iraq], but we think the rewards are commensurate to the effort, and the consequences of lack of success are sobering."
Hadley agreed that there are "a lot of issues in motion right now" on the international front. "In some sense, it was destined to be, because we have a president that wants to take on the big issues and see if he could solve them on his watch.
"the consequences of lack of success are sobering...????" the situation we find ourselves in today is entirely the responsibility of this criminal administration and the consequences to the nation have been piling up at a breathtaking rate ever since the supreme court ratified the creeping coup d'etat on 12 december 2000... Submit To Propeller
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7/06/2006
