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Monday, August 29, 2005

Blank Bush

Posted by on August 29 at 15:41 PM

What the Bush Administration has effectively destroyed is the tradition of the American statesmen, or closer yet, the American diplomat. Meaning: the American civil servant who has a strong sense of the world and how it works is now a thing of the past. Reading a news report like this, which concerns Iraq’s doomed attempt to construct a functional constitution, makes it more than clear that no one in the present Administration has a clue about the world outside of his/her own imaginings. I know this is not a new point, but the total absence of professionalism and realism in American foreign policies astounds me to no end.