Bushs Foreign Policy Falling Apart
The Financial Express
May 23, 2004
WASHINGTON, MAY 23: Attributing the growing hatred against America in the Arab
world to Bush administrations actions in Iraq and West Asia, a leading
newspaper here on Sunday claimed that US President George W Bushs foreign
policy is falling apart. The Bush foreign policy is falling
apart, the Washington Post said stating, the United States has not made
a crucial advance in the campaign against terror, as the President
claimed when he declared victory in Iraq on May 1, 2003. Instead, we have
stimulated new hatred of the US in precisely the regions from which future terrorist
threats are most likely to arise, while alienating our traditional allies,
the newspaper said.
By embracing Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharons plan to withdraw unilaterally from Gaza, we abandoned the honest broker role that the US governments tried to play for four decades in the Middle East, and we confirmed the conspiratorial suspicions of every anti-American Arab. Our credibility has been battered, the newspaper stated.
We set out to put fear into the hearts of our enemies by demonstrating the efficacy of a new doctrine of pre-emptive war. Instead, we have shown the timeless nature of hubris. Last week we announced the transfer of 3,600 troops of the overstrained US Army away from the border of what might be the worlds most dangerous country, North Korea. They will be sent to help with the war in Iraq, for which we now acknowledge we had inadequate resources.
Contrary to Bush administrations stated and implied promises, we will be greeted as liberators was the Vice Presidents famous version, the daily said, the US did not achieve a relatively low-cost triumph in Iraq. Instead, it has a crisis of still-growing dimensions.
The war has damaged the good name of the US in every corner of the globe, has cost unanticipated scores of billions of dollars (all of it borrowed), and now threatens long-term damage to the US Army and national guard, the Washington Post said.
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