Simply amazing how stupid the rabid Bush haters are when it comes to geo political strategy.
Frank Gaffney, the author of this piece, is no “Junk Media Moron.” Nor would I consider him to be a “Bush hater.” He had a very high appointed position in the Reagan Administration.
Yes, and to it's west is a country called Iraq.
I think much of the criticism centers around the fact that GWB has extablished a palestinian state as the cornerstone of our foreign policy, despite the lack of an elected government, or control of their territory.
Hopefully the underlying reason for this trip was Iran, we'll see what progress is made, but diplomaticaly we're not doing well with either Iraq or Iran.
Rather than holding the Annapolis meetings for the purpose of getting Arab states to recognize Israel, failure was obvious when Condi consented to making the Israeli delegation use the service entrance, how about spending our time getting a single Arab state to recognize Iraq. And helping in our effort there.
If you wanted to stop Iran from building nuclear weapons, shouldn’t your geopolitical strategy be centered around Russian help with Iran’s nuclear program? Unless President Bush is courting allies for a US lead attack on Iran or bracing them for an Israeli attack I think Bush is getting out of the country to un-involve himself in the US political process for President. I believe Clinton did this at this time in his last term. Remember Clinton going around Africa appoligizing for this, that and the other?