The real power struggle going on today, is the fact that while President Bush is desparately reaching for more executive authrotiy, the US is actually losing it's political standing in the world.
The geopolitical battle for Iran (Iraq) is about controlling oil resources, and taking them out of the hands of China and Russia.
The US Geopolitical Nightmare
Today the SCO, which has to date been blacked out almost entirely in US mainstream media, is defining a new political counterweight to US hegemony and its "unipolar" world. At the next SCO meeting on June 15, Iran will be invited to become a full SCO member.
What is the SCO? Started June 15, 2001, by Russia and China, along with Kazakhstan, Kyrgustan, Tajikistan and Uzbetkistan. Or the countries Cheney has been visiting.
In the space of 12 months, Russia and China have managed to move the pieces on the geopolitical chess board of Eurasia away from what had been an overwhelming US strategic advantage, to the opposite, where the US is increasingly isolated. It's potentially the greatest strategic defeat for the US power projection of the post-World War II period. This is also the strategic background to the re-emergence of the so-called realist faction in US policy.
The battle in the Middle East has turned into a win for Russia and China, further weakening the US standing in the world. While at home the President is trying desparately not to drown, by taking more power to his executive.
People if this is a battle of ideology, the neocons, are Losing Big Time. They have managed to accomplish the exact opposite of what they set out to do. Im thier misguided, ineffective, incompetent, arrogant and failed foreign policy, they have just handed Russian and China more influence in the world.
Neocon Darling Recommends a change in course
Frances Fukuyama of neocon fame has abandoned the neocon philosophy as a failure. Do you hear that William Kristol, a failure.
A: I just think that people need to look realistically at what our policy has brought forth. I know people say, "Well, we still don't know what's going to happen in Iraq." But I would say a realistic look at the situation, even the most optimistic upshot, is going to lead to the conclusion that it's very hard to say any of this was worth the price we've paid either in lives, economic cost or the reputation of the United States around the world. And we need to get beyond these justifying arguments about whether it was a good idea and move on to figure out what we're going to do now. Because I think that in a way saving American foreign policy from the backlash that is going to be inevitable against this failed policy, that's first on the agenda now.
In an interview one of Fukuyama's biggest gripes with the neocon agenda is the utter scandal and double standard that has been wrought by the US policies on torture. Originally neocons were actually a leftist group, supporting human rights around the world.
Fukuyama recommends a new philosophy in foreign policy or working with people along more of a Wilson doctrine. And it was Woodrow Wilson who created the League of Nations, to prevent future wars.
While we are wasting our resources in Iraq, the US has in the last 12 months blown it.
If you want to know the Democratic plan, on CSpan today they are discussion the Democratic Nat'l Security Agenda at the Progressive Policy Institute. Finally words and ideas that makes sense. And Mark Warner whom I consider fabulous is talking sense!!
Meanwhile at home the Bush Doctrine, is an overreach of power, a stifling of the press, and of course their most important agenda, repealing gay rights.
I hope that people will wake up to what is really going on soon!
I also hope that you take the time to read this article Foreign Policy Nightmare
It is long, but a brilliant and excellent analysis of what the Bush Doctrine and this failed foreign policy has reaped.
Cowboy politics don't work anymore Mr. Bush. And the cost of your failed policies are enormous, in capitol and lost friends.