Bush is running on empty
Burdened by his record low poll ratings, the president of the United States sought last night to convince the nation and the world that he knows what he is doing in Iraq. He succeeded only in proving that he has no new ideas and no plausible plan -- except to tear down that prison whose name he cannot pronounce.
Americans are losing confidence in President Bush, not so much because they distrust his motives, although many do, as because they question his competence. The aggressive unilateralism once regarded by Bush's political strategists as their most powerful domestic political weapon is now turned around and pointing straight at them.
For this humiliating reversal, they can thank the neoconservatives who convinced Bush that they -- and they alone -- were capable of managing foreign and defense policy that would serve American interests. So much for another major myth long promoted and cherished by the Republican right (including many figures who are now seeking distance from the increasingly discredited neocons).
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At the moment, the neocons' blustering matters somewhat less than their blundering. The news emerging from Iraq suggests that although they regard themselves as hardheaded realists,
they are in fact silly dreamers.http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2004/05/25/incompetence/index.html
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