Monday, July 19, 2004

Slate article about what exactly Bush has accomplished in the realm of restricting nuclear weapons proliferation and the expansion of nuclear weapons programs in a number of hot countries. He has accomplished some things, just not quite in the manner he leads the public to believe, and not with a clear and coherient policy. As the author of the article notes:

The key failure is that Bush said nothing--and has planned nothing--about devising a general international policy toward nonproliferation. Police enforcement can go only so far. An effective policy must deal with the reasons certain nations want to go nuclear--and the incentives, as well as the punishments, that might deter them from doing so.

Policy? A cowboy like Bush doesn't need any stinkin' policy. He just does what he has to do, when he has to do it. Why make it easy for the world? Aren't we better off if no one knows what we are going to do and why?

I think Bush needs a few classes in foriegn policy.

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