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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry

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To: Orcastraiter who wrote (71071)11/29/2005 12:25:27 PM
From: RichnorthRead Replies (1) of 81568
 
The following was taken from my internet news:-

Bush "Aloof-Distant"

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff says President Bush was "too aloof, too distant from the details" of post-war planning, allowing underlings to exploit Bush's detachment and make bad decisions. In an Associated Press interview Monday, former Powell chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson also said that wrongheaded ideas for the handling of foreign detainees after Sept. 11 arose from a coterie of White House and Pentagon aides who argued that "the president of the United States is all-powerful," and that the Geneva Conventions were irrelevant.CTV News


Someone told me on another thread a few years back that the most effective way to defeat the Moslems was to strike fear and terror into the hearts and minds of the Moslems. Was he ever so very wrong and was the US so very wrong too! The US carpet-bombed the Taliban at Tora Bora, exploded thermobaric bombs in their caves and razed and destroyed Faluja in Iraq. And yet the battles in Afghanistan and Iraq are far from over!

By the way, ever since 1945, the Europeans have been regarding the US as behaving like a bunch of adolescents when it comes to formulating their (US's) foreign policy. To be sure, the days are proving that to be the case!

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