An anti-Bush alliance

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An anti-Bush alliance

The Boston Globe
THURSDAY, MAY 25, 2006
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/25/opinion/edbush.php

Countries large and small are rejecting President George W. Bush's foreign policy by intimidation and are banding together to counter the U.S. superpower. The next example may come from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a regional grouping that is considering adding Iran to its membership.

The Bush administration pretended to ignore last year's organization summit meeting, at which the members - China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan - called for the United States to withdraw the troops it had stationed in Central Asia for the war in Afghanistan. But the organization's foreign ministers' meeting in Shanghai last week discussed a plan to accept four new members: India, Pakistan, Mongolia and Iran. After that meeting, Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, announced that Iran's belligerent president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, would be attending a summit meeting of the group on June 15 in Shanghai. That should get the Bush administration's attention.

Acceptance of Iran by the organization at the very moment when the Islamic Republic is defying the International Atomic Energy Agency portends a dramatic new stage of strategic coordination between Russia and China. The purpose is to give form to a common policy of resisting what the governments in Beijing and Moscow have come to see as an aggressive, overbearing America.

Ironically, this is precisely what President George W. Bush has pledged to prevent. The national security doctrine that Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have proclaimed was meant to discourage any combination of countries from mounting a challenge to the United States. But instead of inciting awe and submission, the policies associated with administration hawks are motivating countries in Eurasia, the Middle East and Latin America to seek cooperation against U.S. hegemony.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/25/opinion/edbush.php


my 2 cents -- Trampling American Empire (5-24-2006)

[Nikki Stone1]

1. Junior has been a disaster for "Brand America"

Somebody pull the plug already

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. The idiot's misadministration is a superb case study for failure

at every possible level, in every possible way. What an embarrassment to us all.

[gordianot]

5. How much lower can you go in 2 years, we'll find out if no relief 2006.

[gordianot]

3. The same old pattern from the 20th Century.

How many Axis members were there in 1944? Who is the belligerent invader torturer this time?

[diamondsndust]

4. could Revelations be coming true? ...

I can't quote scripture and won't pretend to be able to, but I do remember something about the "Great battle between the Eagle, the Dragon & the Bear"....

anyone here that can quote the scripture or comment on it?