No surprise there. On Jan 14, 9:18�am, "florida mike !" <[email protected]> wrote: > �'History News Network' rated Bush the worst president in the > nation's > historyhttp://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=86618 > Bush leaves office next Tuesday with the lowest sustained approval > ratings of any modern president. With the exception of hard-line neo- > conservatives and other far-right hawks who ruled the roost in Bush's > first term, the overwhelming consensus of veteran analysts here is > that his "global war on terror" -- for which he is likely to be most > remembered -- has inflicted unprecedented and possibly permanent > damage on Washington's image abroad. The latter problem may not > matter > to those who, like Vice President Dick Cheney and the "neo-cons", > have > long disdained diplomacy and other forms of "soft power". But the > unexpected difficulties confronted by U.S. military forces in > Afghanistan and Iraq -- as well as the transparent failure of "hard > power" to have the desired effect in other "terror-war" theatres, > such > as Somalia and Pakistan (or Lebanon, in Israel's case) -- have > exposed > the limits of a U.S.-dominated "unipolar world", and the ability of > the U.S. armed forces to enforce it on their own. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum
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