We are not in Texas anymore, Tonto.
This realization should be hitting Bush everyday. In Texas, Bush rode roughshod over the opposition. As President, he continued his policy for contempt for any opposing viewpoint. "No" to the Kyoto treaty though the US consumes 19 million barrels of oil a day (compared to China of 5 million and total world consumption of 79 million). Steel tariffs to protect the US. Scraping of the ABM treaty. No rules for the lone superpower. After all, Poppy was also President.
This hubris is costing the US dearly. One after another, US consumer companies are feeling the anger and disdain of foreign consumers (Coke, McDonalds, Kodak, Philip Morris, Kraft etc.). Microsoft will see foreign customers move to Linux and OpenSource at an ever increasing rate. Sixty six million fewer foreign visitors to the US last year. The dollar is being sold everyday.
Decades of accumulated goodwill towards the US has evaporated during the reign of King George.
If the massacre of Iraq goes forward, with its estimated 500,000 civilian casualties, the US risks becoming a pariah nation.
"I have a foreign-handed foreign policy" GW
Perhaps, the people in Texas understood you. But, Texas ain't the world anymore, Dubya. |
