Has BUSH's COWBOY FOREIGN POLICY put AMERICA in a weaker position today?

Question

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/03/opinion/edsadja.php

The NEOCON foreign policy seems to backfire all the time! Where did his advisers went to school? lol

Answer 1

Do you mean his policy of invading another nation under the false pretense of spreading capitalism .
Or do you mean controlled Capitalism in which a select group of people profit of the labor of others while the government enforces so called law .

The Iraqi government has been busy passing thousands of laws as they relate to ownership of natural resources .

They have been busy constructing a tax network and infrastructure that benefits the rich and punishes the poor .

Do you actually think they are just working on how to end the violence .

We have them and have written for them what we believe is going to be the best laws to benefit or own greed .

Trade regulation has been the primary laws written and passed by Iraq .
We wonder what they are up to and its all about money .
Life is unimportant to Bush and Iraq's government .

Answer 2

Lets see:

We still have a significantly lower unemploymwent rate then the rest of the world (about 4% for US, 7-9 throughout the EU), the Dow is over 13,000 and we still have the highest GDP so economically we are at a minimum no worse than when he came in, probably stronger -

And militarily / politically we were told by the rest of the world (well, the UN) no, you can't invade Iraq. We said, "yeah well ehf you," and did it anyways, sigle handedly destroying Saddams regime almost overnight (I mean if we werent the benevolent super power we are we could have just pulled out then, come home claiming complete and utter victory and left Iraq in ruin) - which would be the second government we obliterated during Bush's presidency. And has anyone done anything to come back at us. Aside from a few nasty looks, no. Theres nothing they can do, cause we're the most powerful nation in the histroy of the world.

Answer 3

We used to be considered the biggest power in the world, everyone looked up to us and had respect for us. No more. Bush has taken all that away from us. He has no way of dealing with foreign dignitaries, it's really embarrassing. He has alienated us from countries who were big supporters of ours, such as the French. We had no problems with them before, and there's no reason why we should be at odds with them now. Freedom Fries???? This is the first President who has made it so that we have no longer been looked at as the savior of the world. The UN may not be the answer to all our problems, but I see it as the best of what there is out there. It is a place to start discussions. Bush has treated them as if they are idiots and as if they know nothing, when it turned out they were correct, thus alienating even the small countries, who may not be, lets say that important in the range of things, but it doesn't hurt to have them on your side. You really need as many countries as you can have behind you, it's the numbers that count. Having just the UK, who aren't all that much behind us, as they are starting a pull out, under a different Prime Minister, we don't know where they are headed. Yes, there is no doubt about it, we are weaker today than we have ever been before.
But, I will say that visiting European countries as a tourist, as soon as you admit that you are not Pro-Bush, you are treated very well. I had no problems abroad, they were more than happy to have us there and have our money. Maybe it was that for once, going over there we sort of went over with our tail between our legs and were no longer the ugly Americans, expecting everyone to bow down to us. It was one of my best trips abroad.

Answer 4

No, a stronger position! People now know that we could find a random picture of a trailer park, and sex it up to make it look like a mobile chemical weapons facility, giving us the pretest for a full scale invasion. If anything, it puts countries that have....trailers in a weaker position!

Those damn liberals, they are at it again! How dare they question why he wouldn't allow a few inspectors go in to make sure those trailers were actually making chemicals!

Those damn liberals are the reason we lost the Vietnam war too! And look what happened, the dominoes all fell and they took over the world! Now, if we fail in Iraq, they are gonna get into boats, follow us home, and storm our beaches! We will be fighting them in the air, the sea, and in our malls and schools! Simple airport and border security along with better intelligence and law enforcement won't do the trick, we need to smoke them out of their holes!

Answer 5

Probably the same places he went. No where. Just did as Daddy told him to do. I, seriously, in my humble opinion do not think George W. Bush has ever had an original thought in his life. You can tell this by the way he supposedly raised his daughters. They have no originality either. The only person in his family that has any smarts is his dad and he was a jerk when he was President.

Answer 6

Maybe if we'd have made a parking lot out of the terrorist countries on 9/12/01, you wouldn't have anything to complain about right now.
But life wouldn't be nearly as fun without something to complain about, huh?

Answer 7

Weakened.
His method requires force of arms. We only have so many boots in the military. Only so many bombs we cant control the entire world with our military.
His elimination of diplomacy has gotten us down to the last tool of foreign policy.

Answer 8

Ironically, no. America is in a weaker position internationally not because of the bold or even ill-considered decisions of the administration, but because of the thoughtful and timid ones.

Answer 9

The only backfiring is being done to a President by the libs and major media that constantly attack this President during a time of war, making statements that "the war is lost" and emboldening our enemy!!! The president did exactly what needed to be done by engaging out enemy over there because BELIEVE IT OR NOT THEY WOULD BE HERE IF HE DIDN'T!!!!.....its disgusting the level of hatred towards this president when he has KEPT US FROM ANOTHER ATTACK!!...I'm sick and tired of trying to see "your side"....and you had better believe I question your patriotism and the ones you support and instead of attacking our President why don't you thank God that we have someone who sticks to his core convictions even when they are unpopular because he knows in his heart that they are right!!....

Answer 10

Absolutely. Look at the Chinese Dragon. Its fire is surely destroying the US