The headline reads: “Bush blasts Clinton’s foreign policy team.”
And the media give this wide publicity. As they did during the presidential campaign, the media are quick to publicize any hint that might give them a chance to again pronounce that Bush was capable in foreign policy. Just the opposite.
Any president who resorts to the use of our armed forces three times in the space of one four-year term is failing in the exercise of foreign policy. Proper handling of our foreign policy will keep us from using our armed forces.
Bush did not hesitate to place our fliers, soldiers and sailors in harm’s way to cover up his failure to know and exert the proper handling of our foreign policy.
Your article also quotes Bush as saying he lost the election because “he just wasn’t a good enough communicator.” Quite the contrary. The truth did come through in the ballots. The people made it clear they were fed up with the lack of adherence to sound policies, and they wanted a change.
I submit that it is about time that the media discontinue to give substance to the myth of Bush’s foreign policy know-how and to evaluate his presidency for what it was.
