The problems of such aggressive strategies by this administration have created not only voids of National Security for the USA, but, down right confrontation. Does Bush actually believe the 'interests' in Iraq between Russia and the USA are resolvable to come to a common goal for that country?
I mean either, at this point, The West is going to bomb the reactor or it's going to allow it. There is complete anarchy in Iran toward nuclear armament based on a threatened Shi'ite nation's reality of which seems insurmountable even for Russia.
A USA administration cannot 'neglect' relations with countries while escalating into an agenda of global conflict and expect to pick up the pieces at the last minute. Either Russia is going to be patient with the USA as it regains it's stability through Democratic processes or it will consider it a lost cause. Russia will not tolerate an escalation of tensions at its' borders. It hideous for The West to go there. The missile shield is a dreamscape.
Bush has literally put his faith in fiscal cronies in building his foreign policy. Well, dah. That is putting the cart before the horse. USA military institutions are suppose to respond to the 'needs' of the USA in leadership of National Security objectives. Literally, Bush and Cheney have put 'an action plan' forward that compromises USA National Security to allow profit taking from military institutions, including Big Oil, of it's treasury.
That reality didn't play into the venue of foreign relations? That didn't play into the destruction of alliances? That didn't play into the estrangement of Russia?
Hell, yeah it did. And now. In the closing rounds of each president's time in office all that is supposed to wash away in a handshake over Maine lobster? I don't think so.
There still is such a thing as a Maine lobster, right?
