A President's three jobs are running foreign policy, running domestic policy, and running for President.
What motivates this diary is a new revelation about how President Bush has been running our foreign policy into the ground, from an interview with NBC News correspondent Richard Engel.
- Bush admits to Engel that going to war was a decision based on his personal instinct and not on any long-range strategy for the Mideast:
"I know people are saying we should have left things the way they were, but I changed after 9/11. I had to act. I don’t care if it created more enemies. I had to act."
I don't care if it created more enemies.
How foolish can a President be?
There are a few things George apparently never learned about how to do the foreign policy part of his job. Someone needs to teach him. I have a spiel on national strategy that employs some sports analogies, so it might hold his attention. It goes like this:
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