I think George Bush and Condi Rice often deserve criticism, and sometimes even ridicule, for some of the positions they take. However, as I outlined in this post yesterday, often I think there are bigger strategies at play which must be left unarticulated.
This morning Epaminondas and I are having an ongoing comments-section discussion in which Epa asserted that Bush "looks like hell" in his handling of this new battle in the war on Islamofascism.
I disagreed with Epa, and I am awaiting his clarification.
Until then, I will post this. Read this quote from the new issue of Newsweek:
In an exclusive interview with NEWSWEEK's Richard Wolffe, President George W. Bush said he thinks those suspicions are legitimate: "There's a lot of people who believe that the Iranians are trying to exert more and more influence over the entire region and the use of Hizbullah is to create more chaos to advance their strategy." He called that "a theory that's got some legs to it as far as I'm concerned."
One aim of "those who perpetuate violence," said Bush, would be to disrupt the international consensus against Iran's nuclear-enrichment program. Hizbullah launched its attack on Israel the same day that foreign ministers from the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany agreed to push ahead with demands that Iran suspend its nuclear efforts. The second part of the Iranian strategy, Bush suggested, would be to "create conditions such that moderate governments tend to step back in fear, and the vacuum would then be filled by the proponents of an aggressive ideology."
Does it really sound like Bush is out of it? Hmm?
And here's a new Condoleeza Rice quote (from the G8 summit) for you to chew on:
A BIG SIGNAL that this will be a long war is CONDI RICE saying at the G8 today that a ceasfire "would not be useful."
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