Bush Foreign Policy Jeopardizes Our National Security
It is great to see that someone has already posted a comment to my blog. Go Bob! Though I disagree with much of what he has to say, it was well written and thought-provocative. I would like to encourage all of you to post comments with your views.
The following is my letter to the editor as recently published in the Springfield "Republican" newspaper, which further underscores my strong feelings about our current "lost in the wilderness" foreign policy:
"To the Editor:
Recent polls show that only about 35% of Americans support the President. I have to assume it is the same 35% that don’t believe in evolution.
No modern American President has jeopardized our national security as severely as has George W. Bush. Our real enemy -- al-Qaeda – has grown stronger rather than weaker in the last four years. While we strut about on the international stage in an almost comic gung-ho mode, the truth is that our un-winnable war in Iraq has dangerously compromised our ability to respond to a real crisis elsewhere. A once stable country run by a mediocre third world bad guy has now become a kind of Lebanon with lots of bad guys running amok.
And what have we become?
While the United States has often fallen short of its ideals, those ideals used to be unshakeable. Now we detain people for years without trial or even formal charges in deplorable conditions, we run a chain of “gulags” in former Soviet regions, and just the other day the President was threatening to veto a bill that did not formally permit the use of torture. An American president in favor of torture? Whoever thought the day would come?
A mature leader of global democracy & freedom should champion freedom & human rights and use war only as a last resort. We have no foreign policy today except for bully & bluster, and we are less safe than ever before."
The following is my letter to the editor as recently published in the Springfield "Republican" newspaper, which further underscores my strong feelings about our current "lost in the wilderness" foreign policy:
"To the Editor:
Recent polls show that only about 35% of Americans support the President. I have to assume it is the same 35% that don’t believe in evolution.
No modern American President has jeopardized our national security as severely as has George W. Bush. Our real enemy -- al-Qaeda – has grown stronger rather than weaker in the last four years. While we strut about on the international stage in an almost comic gung-ho mode, the truth is that our un-winnable war in Iraq has dangerously compromised our ability to respond to a real crisis elsewhere. A once stable country run by a mediocre third world bad guy has now become a kind of Lebanon with lots of bad guys running amok.
And what have we become?
While the United States has often fallen short of its ideals, those ideals used to be unshakeable. Now we detain people for years without trial or even formal charges in deplorable conditions, we run a chain of “gulags” in former Soviet regions, and just the other day the President was threatening to veto a bill that did not formally permit the use of torture. An American president in favor of torture? Whoever thought the day would come?
A mature leader of global democracy & freedom should champion freedom & human rights and use war only as a last resort. We have no foreign policy today except for bully & bluster, and we are less safe than ever before."
posted by Garp83 at 11:56 AM
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