http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/082206.html
August 23, 2006
Is Bush a Clear & Present Danger?
By Robert Parry
Faced with George W. Bush’s disastrous policies in the Middle East and
his adamant refusal to change course, the question now arises whether
the President has become a "clear and present danger" to the security
of the United States and, indirectly, to Israel.
For more than five years -- even predating the 9/11 attacks -- Bush
has insisted on a "unilateralist" approach toward the world, asserting
U.S. global hegemony under a strategy laid out by the neoconservative
Project for the New American Century.
At the center of this grandiose scheme was the belief that the
oil-rich Middle East could be remade through violent "regime change"
in hostile countries like Iraq.
After 9/11, Bush broadened his target to the "axis of evil," adding in
Iran and North Korea and making clear that other lesser enemies
included Syria, Cuba and Venezuela.
While this neoconservative plan wrapped itself in the language of
"democracy," the concept was always less about respecting the will of
indigenous populations than in restructuring their economies along
"free market" lines and ensuring compliant leaders.
In all of this, there was little room for compromise or negotiations
with the "bad guys."
It was as if the macho rhetoric of AM radio and Fox News had swallowed
U.S. foreign policy.
Real men don’t talk to people who stand in America’s way; you jail or
kill them.
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Harry
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