Mutually Assured Dysfunction: David Frum and the American Enterprise Instit...

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'Nothing can be more pitiable to read about than the present direction of American foreign policy. The Bush administration has gotten the country bogged down in the quagmire of Iraq, blown any chances for a peaceful resolution , during its tenure, of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, of reconciling with Iran so as to promote reform, and of keeping North Korea from obtaining nuclear weapons. In fact, everything Bush does seems to be aimed and exacerbating all of these problems and leading the American people closer and closer to more and bigger tragedies.

We know from many media sources, especially from Bob Woodward’s new book State of Denial, that Bush himself has (or had until just recently) little interest in foreign policy and was essentially clueless when it came foreign affairs. Unfortunately for the country the people around him, neoconservatives and the ultra-right lunatic fringe, who ended up filling in the blank spots in his brain on this subject poured in a mixture of facts and fantasies leavened with ideological commitments based on the material interests of corporate America. Bush thus represents a boon to the ultra-wealthy conservative business interests and a bane to the majority of his fellow citizens. We will have to suffer another two years of this enemy of the people, but we do not have to suffer silently.' http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Oct06/Riggins24.htm