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

To: jlallen who wrote (670454)	1/31/2005 3:25:50 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Bush's support for 'human rights and Democracy' isn't "new-found"????? Well maybe --- but Carter was proposing the same foreign policy change back in the late 'seventies. It was 'controversial' back then --- many believers in 'real-politic' argued that putting support for human rights and Democracy at the center of American foreign policy was naive and misguided, that we had to continue supporting Authoritarian and Dictatorial regimes around the world who 'played ball' with us in the great Cold War conflict regardless of how badly they supressed their own people (countries such as Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pillipines... Iran earlier, etc. Look how well that 'friendly Dictator' policy turned out....) Now, what once sounded impracticable to interventionists of the era, is put forward by Bush as the centerpiece of American foreign policy: that ONLY DEMOCRACIES with respect for the rule of law and human rights can be relied upon as true allies in the long-run.