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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: tekboy who wrote (82819)3/18/2003 2:43:53 AM
From: stockman_scott  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
From friends to foes

How President Bush turned traditional allies into enemies

By Paul Glastris*
SLATE.COM
March 17

msnbc.com

<<...There are no double-blind studies in diplomacy, so we can never know for certain if a president’s strategy for a given crisis is wise or if a different one might have worked better. Occasionally, however, history throws up a comparison that is so apt that it can serve as a pretty reasonable test. If, for instance, you want to know whether the collapse of George W. Bush’s efforts to gain international support for war on Iraq is the inevitable result of difficult circumstances and intransigent allies or a fundamentally flawed strategy, consider the following comparison...>>

*Paul Glastris is editor in chief of the Washington Monthly and a senior fellow at the Western Policy Center.
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