🚀 go-pugleaf

Great post, man.  My sentiments exactly.  Loved that "worst foreign
policy in 200 years" line.  Ingenious.

Monte wrote:
> 
> This administration has among its many diplomatic deficiencies a
> complete lack of grasp when it comes to inter-relationships in
> fopreign policies.  Thir second biggest error is believing any
> glitches that do arise, can be dealt with by the simple expediency of
> futore dollars appearing sendipitously in the countries coffers once
> the issue at hand is resolved.
> 
> The whitehouse seems incapable of differentiating 'life' threatening
> issues to countries versus simple annoyance.  Isreal, several reasons,
> some it brought on itself, has in the intervening years since the Gulf
> War benn positioned in a seemingly 'final struggle' position.  To fail
> in devatating response to attack this time is almost assuredly a hand
> delivered plea to the arab world to come and administer the coup
> d'gras.
> 
> Yet another indicator of this administrations failed foreign policies
> is its complete failure to forsee that this Ireali response would not
> only be certain, but that Saddam Hussein will leverage it to the hilt.
> By continuing to make subtle 'rattling' noise towards Isreal he is
> daring Washington to start a nuclear war.  A war that without
> detractors would widen to at least a regional conflict in which Europe
> to would be drawn.
> 
> Yes, all in all, this administration should be commended for achieving
> the least competent foreign policy probably in the last two centuries.
> There were some who still try to explain away the incredible mess they
> made of the Isreal-Palistinian issue last year.  Powell would say one
> thing, Someone else another, then an 'official' version usually
> contradicting both would be issued, followed by a later one that
> revised that one.  It was no fluke, they do not know what is going on,
> plain and simple.  You cannot have three presidents and have a
> consistent foreign policy.
> 
> Monte
> 
> "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart
> people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean
> it."  --Mark Twain