Bush in the Middle East (again): Big talk, big disappointment
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The headline of the latest editorial in France’s sober daily, Le Monde, refers to “the fiasco of Bush.” As George W. Bush returns to Washington after a five-day junket to the Middle East, where he gushed over the 60th anniversary of Israel’s founding but offered the beleaguered Palestinians nothing, two big components of the “balance sheet of his two terms in office,” Le Monde notes, have become more lamentably obvious than ever. They are “a destabilized region,” meaning the Middle East (which is now arguably more unstable than ever before), and “credit that has been reduced to almost nothing.” That’s not just the financial-credit status of the debt-ridden U.S. government, which is borrowing billions of dollars a day just to cover its operating expenses, but also its political-diplomatic credit, for, under Bush, the United States has lost its once-respected leadership status on the world stage.
admin @ May 20, 2008