What is up with the present Administration’s foreign policy?

Question

Another apparent lesson Bush took from his decades-long inability to control his appetites: since I couldn't trust myself, I can't trust anyone else, and therefore arrangements based on trust won't work. Bush's foreign policy schemes are based on the premise that you've got to exercise violent might in order to protect yourself. On the schoolyard, this is called bullying. On the world stage, it's called "might makes right" unilateralism, and it relies on constant warfare (or the threat thereof) for survival. Is this the kind of world we want our children to inherit?

Answer 1

It is pure idiocy, the result when you combine ignorance that anyone else on the globe may think differently from you with a tendency to paint all people of a particular faith or ethno-religious background with a very broad brush.

Both of these constitute ignorance, and the fundamental level of ignorance is among the otherwise-educated PNAC crowd who have theorized for years that the combination of brute force and "new models" for American style capitalism and democracy will turn those rigid, surly Arabs and Moslems into McDonald-loving, Republican-voting, capitalists. All they needed was a good example backed up by a couple of nuclear carriers.

Now that their assumptions have been proven to be totally wrong - 180 degrees wrong in fact - they should be pitching their tents and leaving the stage but happily for them Bush is too dim to notice that every one of their predictions has gone horribly wrong. How long will we persist on this foreign policy course?

Judging by Bush's responses so far, I don't see any changes until there's a new administration which, whether Republican or Democratic, can effectively change policies without admitting they were wrong.

One man's "determination in the face of adversity" is another's "inability to admit a mistake, even at the cost of political and national suicide".

Answer 2

Oh! i get it, we are bullying the religious terrorist extremest and the countries that harbor them, shame on us!!! I mean, its not like they would kill innocent people or anything, let alone themselves just for the sake of going to heaven. You can't negotiate with people who aren't afraid to die, plus since one of their ultimate goals is to basically wipe all the western powers and Israel of the face of the earth by using deadly force. Unfortunately this isn't a perfect world where talking can solve everything, so many times we have to put foot to ***. Don't kid yourself there will always be war, be happy that you live in a country that would prefer peace but isn't afraid to fight for it either. Those brave men and women fighting for us over there are trying there best to make it so your children won't have to inherit it. On the schoolyard we are not the bully, we are the guy that fights the bully off. Some hate us and some love us, like i said its not a perfect world, somebody will always be mad at someone else.

Answer 3

This administration's foreign policy is hijacked by the neo-cons. I assure you, they are running it from the dark corners of the White House. Some call this a shadow government.

Answer 4

What foreign policy? Bush's idea of a foreign policy is to hit on the German Chancellor, lol.

Answer 5

They have a foreign policy? I thought it was a policy of create war to grab the spoils.

Answer 6

Under DUH-bya's failed leadership our great planet is resting on a house of cards, it's only a matter of time before it crashes. We cannot afford another two years under that imbecile, let's impeach him AND Cheney NOW!

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Answer 7

Often referred to as "Gunboat Diplomacy", it is a throwback and not very progressive