WP: President Signals No Major Shift In Foreign Policy

[kskiska]

Sunday, November 7, 2004; Page A01

President Bush faces an array of difficult foreign policy issues in his second term, but he appears unlikely to change the overall direction of an assertive diplomacy that has riled some key allies and led to rising anti-Americanism around the globe, according to administration officials and outside experts.

Administration officials acknowledge that they are considering stylistic shifts and will look for opportunities to reach out to estranged allies. With the election behind them, officials hope policy toward Iraq will not be as politicized, and that nations that have withheld assistance in the hope that Bush would lose will rethink their position.

Some changes will depend on whether key players in Bush's first-term team -- such as fierce rivals Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld -- are replaced. New personnel would lead to a review of policies and, possibly, some shifts in tactics, but the direction would still be set by Bush and Vice President Cheney, a highly influential figure on foreign policy.

"I don't detect any real effort, either within the administration or the broader circles of the Republican Party, to fundamentally change course," said Richard Burt, an assistant secretary of state and ambassador to Germany in the Reagan administration.

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[VegasWolf]

1. No Change, bend over and suck my *, I've got political capital.

[saigon68]

3. How many times must the cannonballs fly

How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand
How many times must the cannonballs fly
Before they are forever banned
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind

How many years can a mountain exist
Before it is washed to the sea
How many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free
How many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn't see
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind

How many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky
How many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry
How many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind

[VegasWolf]

6. You know Saigon, I think we're about to get a new breed of

really powerful music. The 60's rocked with pain
and angst, another way to me this looks like Nam.
Go Emenim. Peace!

[saigon68]

9. Yes you are right

The peace movement-- if it ever had a reason to start, is well on the way.

Music, art and protest will be the hallmark of the next and last 4 years of the AWOL CHIMPANZEE and his DRAFT-DODGING partner DICKLESS CHENEY.

wait until the military starts gunning down protesters in the streets.

[otohara]

2. Apparantly "Yeehaw" Is Accepted Foreign Policy

in Bush's Amerika

[htuttle]

4. I believe that's what the rest of the world was afraid of

[daleo]

5. Bush to World - You ain't seen nothing yet

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.

(To mix my poets).

[Kool Kitty]

7. Of course there will be no shift in

Bush's foreign policy-why would he want to change it when everything is going so well? :eyes:

[teryang]

8. No change in course- still headed over a cliff

Anyone that thinks the American treasury or economy can survive the ignorant ideological policies and monomaniacal ambitions of the fascist war profiteers doesn't understand what this dictatorship is all about.

The so called "moral values" mandate equals the volk endorsement of American fascism. Totalitarianism is a mass movement.

[PurityOfEssence]

10. We're still gonna take over the world, so shut up.

Peon.