"Pre-emptive war, unilateral action, black-and-white phrasings" don't work...? Or is it all about Condi...?

yeah, it think it's pretty obvious to all but the hopelessly brain dead and the organ-grinders of the bush propaganda machine that our foreign policy is an unmitigated disaster...

(from this week's edition of time magazine online edition...)

So what happened? The most obvious answer is that the Bush Doctrine foundered in the principal place the U.S. tried to apply it. Though no one in the White House openly questions Bush's decision to go to war in Iraq, some aides now acknowledge that it has come at a steep cost in military resources, public support and credibility abroad. The Administration is paying the bill every day as it tries to cope with other crises. Pursuing the forward-leaning foreign policy envisioned in the Bush Doctrine is nearly impossible at a time when the U.S. is trying to figure out how to extricate itself from Iraq. Around the world, both the U.S.'s friends and its adversaries are taking note—and in many cases, taking advantage—of the strains on the superpower. If the toppling of Saddam Hussein marked the high-water mark of U.S. hegemony, the past three years have witnessed a steady erosion in Washington's ability to bend the world to its will.

and now we're supposed to believe this...?

A strategic makeover is evident in the ascendancy of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who has tried to repair the Administration's relations with allies and has persuaded Bush to join multilateral negotiations aimed at defusing the standoffs with North Korea and Iran. By training and temperament, Rice is a foreign policy realist, less inclined to the moralizing approach of the neoconservatives who dominated Bush's War Cabinet in the first term. Her push for pragmatism has rubbed off on hawks like Vice President Dick Cheney, the primary intellectual force behind Bush's post-9/11 policies. "There's a move, even by Cheney, toward the Kissingerian approach of focusing entirely on vital interests," says a presidential adviser. "It's a more focused foreign policy that is driven by realism and less by ideology."

somthing is "rubbing off" on dick cheney...? i'm sorry... i don't believe that's possible... what i see here is much more a rovian attempt to groom the next republican presidential candidate - condoleezza rice by presenting her as a moderate, rational, alternative to bush's insanity... what rove REALLY wants is another sock puppet and is trying to paint condi as an independent thinker who has the "courage" to challenge george...

(thanks to raw story...)

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