Bush's Failed Foreign Policy

But, quietly, the doctrine has been abandoned, not because of intellectual doubts but because it has run up against the crucible of experience. With his Iraq policy in tatters, growing insurgency in Afghanistan, defiance by Iran and North Korea and the failure of 'democracy promotion' to stem the problem of violence in the Middle East, the Bush Doctrine has proven unworkable and impractical. Learned foreign policy experts had warned the Bush Administration and its neoconservatives that its doctrine was not only dangerous but dubious as a foreign policy initiative. Now the evidence is in and egg is all over Bush's face. To his credit, he has recognised that the Emperor has no clothes and has quietly sought to find some fig leaves to cover his shame. "If the rhetoric of the Bush revolution lives on, the revolution itself is over," says Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution in an article titled 'The End of the Bush Revolution', in the July/August issue of the journal, Foreign Affairs. "The question is not whether the President and most of his team hold the basic tenets of the Bush Doctrine - they do - but whether they can sustain it. They cannot," says Gordon in his tightly reasoned article. http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20060827/focus/focus1.html

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