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

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (670464)	1/31/2005 3:31:21 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Nope....not new found.....you guys only hear what you want to hear.....and its not the same as JC's policy in any event...GWB has actually DONE something about it.... J.

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (670464)	2/1/2005 6:28:39 PM
From: Robert Salasidis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

It was naive to put human rights and democracy at the center stage of foreign policy if one was unwilling to enforce it. Is there any reason dictatorial regimes would willingly accept any incursions to their political power from outside sources. Without the fear that they may be forcefully unseated from power, there is little reason to expect any change from regimes that are willing to cleanse their own population of any dissent. Finally, one sometimes needs to make alliances that in retrospect might not look so good, but one would be forced to make them again if the same circumstances arose (Allies + Russia in WW2 is a glaring example).