The Bush-house in a Nutshell
I struggle to sum up the Bush administrations behaviour any more succinctly than this
It is a pattern of wishful thinking, blinding moral outrage, willful ignorance of foreign cultures, a naive faith in American triumphalism, a contempt for the messy compromises of diplomacy, and a knee-jerk refusal to do anything the way the Clinton administration did it.
I struggle to sum up the Bush administrations behaviour any more succinctly than this
It is a pattern of wishful thinking, blinding moral outrage, willful ignorance of foreign cultures, a naive faith in American triumphalism, a contempt for the messy compromises of diplomacy, and a knee-jerk refusal to do anything the way the Clinton administration did it.
Most ominously, this is in description of the Bush administration’s handling of North Korea! This is an excellent article to read on the history of the North Korean nuclear issue.