Newsweek article rating needs some DU help...

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Sorry if this is a dupe..I can't search because my star expired, and I have tried several times to donate and keep running into some sort of system glitch. This needs to be a five star article in my opinion though..



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13988981/site/newsweek/

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But after Iraq, many of those leaders find it hard to rush to Bush's side, and he has struggled to win them back. Over the past three years, since the invasion, his options have narrowed; circumstances have taught him to speak the language of diplomacy more fluently. Yet he still trusts his gut to tell him what's right, and he still expects others to follow his lead. For Bush, diplomacy is not the art of a negotiated compromise. It's a smoother way to get where he wants to go—especially when all the other options are off the table, as they are in Iran and North Korea. As the crisis worsened last week, several allies wished Bush would talk less about the United Nations and more about sending in his own envoy—less process, more peacemaking. Yet Bush's goal isn't to broker a ceasefire; it's to disarm Hizbullah and roll back the ambitions of its patrons.

As the crisis unfolded, NEWSWEEK gained rare access to the president and his senior aides, spending hours behind the security curtain that surrounds Bush in the air and on the ground. Between meetings with world leaders, Bush agreed to four freewheeling interviews and hundreds of candid photographs. He showed his ease with diplomacy on his terms—in short one-on-one meetings that he could control. But he also showed his impatience with the formal statecraft of summits and group sessions, where his voice was just one among many. In the interviews, he was unusually relaxed, revealing a president by turns playful and pensive, stubborn and accommodating, as he grappled with the biggest foreign crisis of his second term.

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