Beware a New Bush Doctrine
By Seyom Brown | October 4, 2006 | The Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/10/04/beware_a_new_bush_doctrine/
Seyom Brown is a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. He is the author of “The Illusion of Control: Force and Foreign Policy in the 21st Century,” . In this sharp-pointed essay, he warns that:
“…the new Bush doctrine of supporting ‘moderate’ regimes and movements against the extremists sounds like a realistic accommodation to…reality…But it risks a pendulum swing too far back in the direction of completely amoral realpolitik, in which this country indifferently turns a blind eye to gross violations of human rights.”
He speaks for most of us in this group when he says:
“The record of this administration does not inspire confidence that it can avoid a simplistic implementation of the moderation vs. extremism formula in which those who go along with its demands and preferences are, by definition, moderates, and those who oppose it are either extremists or appeasers of the extremists.”…Sound familiar?…BS
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