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Politics > Politics-USA |
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"Harry Hope" |
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29 Jun 2004 07:31:53 AM |
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NATO tells Bush 'Go ***** Yourself' |
From The New York Times, 6/28/04:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/28/politics/28DIPL.html
As Bush Confers With NATO, U.S. Is Seen Losing Its Edge
By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS
WASHINGTON --
President Bush's trip to the NATO summit meeting in Turkey comes at a
time of diminished diplomatic strength, in which international
organizations and individual countries have forced his administration
into some strategic compromises, foreign policy specialists and
diplomats say.
As Mr. Bush tries to press NATO allies to play a greater role in Iraq,
he faces resistance from critics of the administration's previously
unilateral stances who worry that the Iraq mission may be on the brink
of failure, those analysts said.
The resistance from normally friendly countries like Germany, France
and Japan, and from international organizations long dominated by the
United States, has forced the administration to rethink its plans for
security in Iraq and for persuading North Korea to abandon its nuclear
weapons program.
"What we are seeing is other nations joining to resist U.S.
unilateralism and exacting a higher price," said Cliff Kupchan, vice
president of the Nixon Center, an institute in Washington created by
former President Richard M. Nixon that specializes in foreign policy.
"We've seen pounds of flesh being exacted before. Now it's an
aggregate pound of flesh."
Mr. Kupchan said international skepticism and domestic pressure from
Americans seeking a more collaborative role with the world had
prompted the administration to adjust its tone.
But it may be too late, he said.
"I don't think you can turn around three years of U.S. foreign policy
with some midnight initiatives," he said.
"The image of this president in the public's and the world's eyes is
pretty much established."
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What might that image be, I wonder.
Harry
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| User: "Carbon Unit 6" |
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| Title: Re: NATO tells Bush 'Go ***** Yourself' Maybe they got their cue from Vice President Scooter Libby. |
29 Jun 2004 05:02:26 PM |
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Oh well, telling one to go ***** themself seems
to be the new poitical correctness. Thanks to
the Family Values Republican party, you can tell
a democrat to go ***** itself, and still be a proper
republican. I always said they are degenerate
reactionary erzatz Socialist.
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