Big Picture

[Boomer II]

Interesting article: http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20040210-082912-8099r.htm

 

[Sled Puller]

WOW! A few highlights.....





Clearly, Mr. Gaddis has not been a long-time admirer of Mr. Bush. But he is now.

He observes that Mr. Bush "undertook a decisive and courageous reassessment of American grand strategy following the shock of the 9/11 attacks. At his doctrine's center, Bush placed the democratization of the Middle East and the urgent need to prevent terrorists and rogue states from getting nuclear weapons. Bush also boldly rejected the constraints of an outmoded international system that was really nothing more that a snapshot of the configuration of power that existed in 1945. "







It is worth noting that John Kerry and the other Democrats' central criticism of Mr. Bush — the prosaic argument that he should have taken no action without U. N. approval — is rejected by Mr. Gaddis as being a proposed policy that would be constrained by an "outmoded international system. " ... ...



The United States has emerged as a more powerful and purposeful actor within the international system than it had been on September 11, 2001. "

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Did you find the Boston Globe article Boomer?

 

[Boomer II]

I got this off the Neal Boortz site. http://www.boortz.com/