Time for an “Agonizing Reappraisal”: by Patrick J. Buchanan

July 3, 2006 Issue
Copyright © 2006 The American Conservative

Time for an “Agonizing Reappraisal”
by Patrick J. Buchanan

Gazing across what Zbigniew Brzezinski once called the “arc of crisis,” U.S. foreign policy appears to be disintegrating.

On the Horn of Africa, Islamic warriors have seized Mogadishu. The warlords, our allies, are on the run. In Islamist Sudan, the Darfur horror rages on. In Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, whom our secretary of state was only recently snubbing for undemocratic behavior, now appears again to be persona grata as our only alternative to the Muslim Brotherhood. Yet the Egyptian president scarcely seems chastened. His judges just confirmed a five-year jail sentence for his democratic opponent Ayman Nur, and his regime just ordered the International Republican Institute of John McCain to cease operations in Egypt.

While Ehud Olmert promises to work with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Israel moves inexorably to wall off the desired slices of the West Bank, annex Jerusalem and its suburbs, retain military control of the Jordan Valley, and get an America awash in debt to pick up the tab for a reported $10 billion.

Further east, the U.S. position appears to be crumbling. Despite installation of a new government, the Iraqi insurgency shows no signs of abating, and a religious civil war has begun. From January through May, 6,000 corpses, most showing gunshot wounds and others signs of torture, turned up in Baghdad’s morgue. May was the worst month, with 35-50 bodies coming in every day.

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pls. remember they're in the minority and their hands are tied!

Bush’s democracy crusade has been exploited by Islamists in Egypt, Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Iraq, and Iran. The National Endowment for Democracy may claim victories in Georgia and Ukraine, but the cost of its meddling appears to be the loss of Russia and creation of an anti-American bloc from the Baltic Sea to the Taiwan Strait.

But while the Bush foreign policy appears to be failing at every turn, in neither party can one see another vision. Emerson’s words come to mind: “Things are in the saddle and ride mankind.”

In Dulles’s phrase, it’s time for an “agonizing reappraisal.”

Long past time, Buchanan!

He writes these blistering articles in the American Conservative or at antiwar.com, and then shills for Shrub as soon as a camera is on him. Makes me sick :puke:

DeGaulle refused NATO command of French forces.

So, what's the parallel here? Is Buchanan saying that Condi Rice should write off the most contested areas of South and Central Asia? The Arc of Crisis that Brzezinski is referring to here contains more than half of the world's proven oil and natural gas reserves.

Or, is he saying that BushCo has squandered in the first years of the 21st Century what it took America the better part of the 20th Century to acquire, inherit, seize, or cheat away from the other great powers? That something that's slipping away is control over the world. Once that's gone, there's no getting it back.

Just ask the French about their empire.

...the predictable result of 6 years of "compassionate conservatism..."

Pass the crow please...

and it always makes me feel like I need a shower, but even a broken clock is right sometimes...

Refer to as a Paleo-Conservative. You know the schtick, small government, less taxes, no welfare, and a hands of foreign policy..... The hands of foregin policy is something you and I would agree on....