Reply #45: Oct 21 thread on a UPI piece leading up to the Scowcroft article:

[Nothing Without Hope]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1868574
thread title: Old Bush vs. new (Bracing for attack from Brent Scowcroft)

Once again we see the meme of the 'good old days" under Bush 41 contrasted with the bad ones under Bush 43. Scowcoft is no kind of bipartisan, but the article (from UPI) portrays hiim as a wise impartial man from the golden days:

"A Republican and a former Air Force general, Scowcroft is a leading member of the bipartisan foreign policy establishment, and his critique of both of the style and the substance of the Bush White House, is slated to appear in Monday's editions of the New Yorker magazine.

The article also contains some critical comments on the handling of U.S. foreign policy by the current President Bush from his father, whose 1989-1993 presidency is hailed for deft management of the end of the Cold War, German unification, the first Gulf war and the collapse of the Soviet Union."