If Bush Ruled the World

[kentuck]

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0319-28.htm

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PARIS - Intellectual poverty is the most striking quality of the Bush administration's new National Security Strategy statement, issued on Thursday. Its overall incoherence, its clichés and stereotyped phraseology give the impression that Stephen Hadley, the national security adviser, and his fellow authors assembled it from the boilerplate of bureaucratic discourse with contempt for the Congress to whom it is primarily addressed.

It reveals the administration's foreign policy as a lumpy stew of discredited neoconservative ideas with some neo- Kissingerian geopolitics now mixed in.

The statement's only visible purpose is to address a further threat to Iran, as its predecessor, in 2002, threatened Iraq. The only actual "strategy" that can be deduced from it is that the Bush administration wishes to rule the world. The document is nonsensical in content, insulting to other nations and unachievable in declared intention.

If people read it to find a statement of American foreign policy's objective, they will learn that the United States has "the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world." Good luck.

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[redphish]

1. A tyrant ending tyranny in the world.

It would be a joke if it wasn't so sick.

[IDemo]

2. neo-Kissingerian,,, so it's even worse than I thought ! n/t

[Canuckistanian]

3. Paleo-Kissengerianism was bad enough

You're right, Neo-Kissengerianism sounds even worse!