Thursday, March 20, 2003
War in the Ruins of Diplomacy
The mistakes that contributed to America's current isolation began long before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. From the administration's first days, it turned away from internationalism and the concerns of its European allies by abandoning the Kyoto Protocol on global warming and withdrawing America's signature from the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court. Russia was bluntly told to accept America's withdrawal from the Antiballistic Missile Treaty and the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization into the territory of the former Soviet Union. In the Middle East, Washington shortsightedly stepped backed from the worsening spiral of violence between Israel and the Palestinians, ignoring the pleas of Arab, Muslim and European countries. I wonder why other countries resist US aggression on Iraq? They see us pulling out of everything the rest of the world wants from us.
I believe Bush has a plan to completely isolate the US from the rest of the world. He will dump the responsibility to rebuild the country to private companies, and stick the UN with as much of the following costs as possible. He will use the UN to put the pieces together after all the destruction. He will bully them into it. I can now see Ari Flesher at the podium saying "The UN is being given a second chance to be relevant and act as the responsible international body that it is supposed to be". Spin spin spin. That is how Bush gets by. Don't get dizzy folks and hang on tight for the ride, because it is not going to stop anytime soon. We are in this ride pretty much alone. England will be discouraged and dismayed soon. England's agenda of setting up a Palestinian state, will get dumped as soon as the war is over. Hey thanks for shedding your blood for our cause, but you didn't think we were going to completely along with you now did you? Just kidding, we had our fingers crossed!
Sources cited: New York Times March 18, 2003
The mistakes that contributed to America's current isolation began long before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. From the administration's first days, it turned away from internationalism and the concerns of its European allies by abandoning the Kyoto Protocol on global warming and withdrawing America's signature from the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court. Russia was bluntly told to accept America's withdrawal from the Antiballistic Missile Treaty and the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization into the territory of the former Soviet Union. In the Middle East, Washington shortsightedly stepped backed from the worsening spiral of violence between Israel and the Palestinians, ignoring the pleas of Arab, Muslim and European countries. I wonder why other countries resist US aggression on Iraq? They see us pulling out of everything the rest of the world wants from us.
I believe Bush has a plan to completely isolate the US from the rest of the world. He will dump the responsibility to rebuild the country to private companies, and stick the UN with as much of the following costs as possible. He will use the UN to put the pieces together after all the destruction. He will bully them into it. I can now see Ari Flesher at the podium saying "The UN is being given a second chance to be relevant and act as the responsible international body that it is supposed to be". Spin spin spin. That is how Bush gets by. Don't get dizzy folks and hang on tight for the ride, because it is not going to stop anytime soon. We are in this ride pretty much alone. England will be discouraged and dismayed soon. England's agenda of setting up a Palestinian state, will get dumped as soon as the war is over. Hey thanks for shedding your blood for our cause, but you didn't think we were going to completely along with you now did you? Just kidding, we had our fingers crossed!
Sources cited: New York Times March 18, 2003
# posted by Thomas @ 8:28 PM 
