Bush gets an F as President

Zbignew Brzenski interviewed by Wolf Blitzer during which he states:

The War in Iraq —
(1) Caused calamitous damage to America's global standing.

(2) Is a geopolitical disaster

(3) Increased the terrorist threat to the United States.

A global survey shows that people around the world regard the United States as the 3rd worst contributor to global affairs -- behind only Israel and Iran.





Book Description
From the most highly respected analyst of foreign policy writing today, a story of wasted opportunity and squandered prestige: a critique of the last three U.S. presidents' foreign policy.

America's most distinguished commentator on foreign policy, former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, offers a reasoned but unsparing assessment of the last three presidential administrations' foreign policy. Though spanning less than two decades, these administrations cover a vitally important turning point in world history: the period in which the United States, having emerged from the Cold War with unprecedented power and prestige, managed to squander both in a remarkably short time. This is a tale of decline: from the competent but conventional thinking of the first Bush administration, to the well-intentioned self-indulgence of the Clinton administration, to the mortgaging of America's future by the "suicidal statecraft" of the second Bush administration. Brzezinski concludes with a chapter on how America can regain its lost prestige. This scholarly yet highly opinionated book is sure to be both controversial and influential.

About the Author
Zbigniew Brzezinski, formerly the National Security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, is a counselor and trustee at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a professor of American foreign policy at the School of Advanced International Studies, the Johns Hopkins University,Washington, D.C. His many books include The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership (2004) and The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (1997). He lives in Washington, D.

REPUBLICAN SENATOR GORDON SMITH

CNN'S WOLF BLITZER DOES INTERVIEW WITH REPUBLICAN SENATOR GORDON SMITH WHO ON THE FLOOR OF THE SENATE SAID THE IRAQ WAR MAY BE ILLEGAL.

This is a man who has studied and reflected on what is happening in Iraq- and has in hiw own words- "come to the end of his rope". The dying US troops really are effecting him. He is not pointing fingers, rather, he accepts responsibility as part of the US Government. "What I say I say not in anger, but in sorrow."

posted by paul grant (follower of Basho)