Washington Post says Bush Doctrine a flop

[Worst Username Ever]

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There's already been a retreat from the radicalism in Bush administration foreign policy," said Walter Russell Mead, a Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow. "You have a feeling that even Bush isn't saying, 'Hey, that was great. Let's do it again.' "


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"Neoconservatism has been replaced by neorealism, even within the Bush White House," Kemp said. "The best evidence is the administration's extraordinary recent reliance on Kofi Annan (news - web sites) and Lakhdar Brahimi. The neoconservatives are clearly much less credible than they were a year ago."



http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1803&e=1&u=/washpost/20040628/pl_washpost/a10539_2004jun27

[wtmusic]

1. Neoism has been replaced by neoneoism

Why the hell is the neo in neorealism, or is it just another unnecessary prefix that makes me sound smarter?

[LuminousX]

3. Realism is Realism... I agree, the neo is pointless

They haven't discovered a New Reality or even a New Way of seeing Reality.

[JHB]

2. "clearly much less credible than they were a year ago"

The neoconservatives are clearly much less credible than they were a year ago.

Being demonstrably wrong will do that, eventually. Problem is, they've been wrong for the last 30 years, and it's only pushed them higher up the totem pole.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Also, JHB, Less Credible With Whom?

I never found them, their theories, or the methods credible. They couldn't have gotten any less credible from my POV.
The Professor

[Jacobin]

5. WP is "clearly less credible" as well

Since they whored for the invasion of Iraq as much as any neo-con did.
Gee, when are they gonna write a story about THAT?