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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
In the sense that you suggest, there is scarcely a part of our foreign policy that is not "part" of the war on terror.
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Anything which attempts to move the needle in the middle east is part of it in my book.
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I don't think that for Bush, personally, terrorism was the reason to invade Iraq. For some of his aides, the answer is different.
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I do. What, are you going to go with the "avenging the old man routine"?
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Read more of the CSIS report about what's actually going on there -- I think I am fairly representing their findings, albeit very generally so -- and less of the Wall St Journal's puff pieces about all the happy press releases issued there recently.
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I did read it. And don't think I buy into the opinionjournal shit. Most of it is partisan nonsense, but occassionally there are nuggests in there that you don't find other places.
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Bush has used his capital in Iraq that he doesn't have much left.
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What does this mean?
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More fundamentally, can you think of anything Bush has done to strengthen democracy, outside of invading Iraq? You've said in the past that you think it's an important part of his foreign policy -- don't the results leave you feeling let down? Russia, China, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Venezuela -- think about it.
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How about Aphganistan?
How about the support of HK (although I agree that this is autopilot for the US)
But you have a point. Again, I think he's traded the support for the WOT.
