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To: maceng2 who wrote (271123)12/17/2003 7:21:27 AM
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>>both Clinton and Bush have just stumbled along as best they could in both circumstances

I agree, but I think that in the aftermath of 9/11, something changed about Bush with respect to foreign policy. This culminated in the speech he gave at Whitehall Place while visiting the UK. Although I was never a fan of Bush, I must admit that I found the speech to be shocking and inspiring. I never imagined that I would hear a US President say so forthrightly that our historical policy of supporting dictators was wrong.

Isn't this what the Old Left and the New Left always insisted that the President should say? Where was their applause? Their moral courage on foreign policy is what made me regard the left with respect. Has the modern left really become "post-humanitarian", as Mark Steyn claims?

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