Bush Clan Doing U-turns?

Policy Successes -- or U-Turns

Views Differ on Bush Moves on Iran, N. Korea, Mideast

By Karen DeYoung and Glenn Kessler

Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, March 11, 2007

If all goes according to plan, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will sit down next month with the foreign ministers of Iran and North Korea -- two "axis of evil" nations that the Bush administration has long shunned. And after criticizing her predecessors for pointless diplomatic shuttling in the Middle East, Rice now makes near-monthly negotiating trips there.

Administration officials insist that what appears to be a sudden turn toward diplomacy is rather the fruit of six years of careful and deliberate policymaking. But outside experts, and even some insiders, say that the initiatives have less to do with reaping rewards than with reversing course after years of policy stagnation and failure.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice contends that apparent turnarounds in administration policy abroad are the result of patient work over the past six years. Others see a response to the failure of previous policies.

"What has changed?" asked one former high-level Bush administration official. "That we finally like these people? That we finally have them where we want them? Or gee, we're at 30 percent [public approval] and we've only got 20 months to go?

   Patient work over the past six years? Miss Rice must be into the Bush basket of drugs again. If you weren't even speaking to the " axis of evil " then how can you say you've gotten to this point by working on it?

   This would still be the Bush Crime Family refusing to face reality and admit that they were wrong about not needing to use diplomatic means to solve some of the mid east problems which have occurred mostly over the past six years under Bush.

 

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