Applebaum: Dubya’s Mideast Initiative in Tatters
from the statement-of-desire-does-not-a-policy-make dept.
Slate’s Anne Applebaum has written an opinion piece that points out the obvious about emperor dubya’s new Middle East clothes: he isn’t wearing any. More specifically, the President’s demand that Sharon withdraw from the West Bank immediately, followed by Sharon’s casual ignoring of same, has left U.S. prestige in the region at a new low. “If rhetoric could have solved his conflict, it would have been over a long time ago. But in order to create a genuinely new policy, Bush would have to take sides, one way or another, and put his money, or his military, where his mouth is.” So far, no sign of either from dubya; it’s all mouth so far.
