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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: FastC6 who wrote (140654)	4/26/2001 10:59:20 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

Bush's remarkable statement yesterday that the US "would do whatever it took" militarily to defend Taiwan against a Chinese attack. Mr Bush subsequently toned down his remarks, saying US policy had not changed, sowing even further confusion and knocking America's "strategic ambiguity" approach to Taiwan for a loop. Mr Bush's initial comments must have astonished and alarmed the secretary of state, Colin Powell, a Vietnam veteran himself. Mr Powell famously dislikes putting American troops in the line of fire after the humiliation of Vietnam and prevaricated for months on Bosnia. One can imagine how men like Mr Powell would blanch at the thought of committing US manpower to defend a far-off island only 100 miles from China. As Lyndon Johnson once said, only to reverse himself with tragic consequences, why get involved in an Asian land war. guardian.co.uk