Letters to the Editor
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No Clue
Bush's regime has never shown the slightest aptitude for geopolitics. Remember the bumbling bluster against China that blew up in the US' face once the Chinese were holding American airmen captive? The neoconservative obsession with burning down Russian-American relations over the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty even in the absence of any actual missile threat? Bush was already marching American influence off a cliff well before the September 11 debacle and the ensuing madness.
One would have expected some kind of entrenched, organized opposition from within the national political class over the past 7 years simply on the basis of this persistent, fundamental incompetence. Yet the irrational myth of Republican prowess in foreign policy, and the equally irrational but dismayingly stubborn fear of Democrats to aggressively engage the nation on these issues, seem largely intact no matter how hard Bush's people fall.