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

To: JDN who wrote (365176)	3/2/2003 12:08:24 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 769670

Without our allies we are much weaker country. Part of the reason Afghanistan went well is that we had a lot of allies and tons of good will and sympathy after 9-11. The Gulf War the same. GW Bush has squandered most of that now. To the majority of the world he has turned us from good guys into bad guys. Sad to say. Bush went about the Iraq War all wrong. He did come off as a reckless unilaterlist obsessed with Saddam and ignoring other threats. He shouldn't have used it as a domestic political ploy to rip off the November elections just because his polls were dropping fast. That helped him short-term but hurts America long-term. Which is what most Bush policies do.

To: JDN who wrote (365176)	3/2/2003 3:23:54 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Respond to of 769670

I think we are at a critical juncture. If the new U.N. resolution is not approved and Bush continues to dally with the U.N., then the U.N. will have proven its effective sovereignty over the U.S. It will be the beginning of the end for America as we know it. If, on the other hand, the U.N. approves the resolution, then the status quo will be for the most part maintained for the U.N. In other words, the U.N. will remain a generally ineffective monstrosity with no real power and influence in the world. The U.S. will continue as the one political force that makes the world go around. If the U.N. rejects the resolution and Bush presses beyond it to meet his military and political goals, the U.N. will be seriously weakened. The U.S. will have proven the U.N. an actual impediment to national progress. As far as the U.S. is concerned, the U.N. will be irrelevant except as a means to distribute powdered milk to malnourished Africans and Cambodians.