Experts condemn US foreign policy

[cal04]

MORE than 650 foreign affairs experts from the US and abroad have signed an open letter condemning the Bush administration's foreign policy, saying it has harmed the fight against terrorists.

The letter from the nonpartisan Security Scholars for a Sensible Foreign Policy was released today and points to what it describes as a series of blunders in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

"We judge that the current American policy centred around the war in Iraq is the most misguided one since the Vietnam period, one which harms the cause of the struggle against extreme Islamic terrorists," the letter states. It said that "the results of this policy have been overwhelmingly negative for US interests".

The man who first thought to write the letter, Stuart J Kaufman, a professor of political science at the University of Delaware, said the group wanted to influence the public debate, not endorse one presidential candidate over the other. The part of it that's news is that the overwhelming consensus among national security experts is that the current policy is not working," Prof Kaufman said. "And the people who signed this are usually people who don't agree on anything."

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11059599%255E1702,00.html

[Eye and Monkey]

1. Well, now THERE'S an example of Chimpie uniting not dividing -

From the cited article -
"The part of it that's news is that the overwhelming consensus among national security experts is that the current policy is not working," Prof Kaufman said. "And the people who signed this are usually people who don't agree on anything."

[knowbody0]

2. this would be your global test

kerry has built connections over the years. we can only hope

[indepat]

3. Confirms a calamity if not a disaster is in the making, yet the election

will probably be won outright by W or be close enough to again be stolen. The zealotry of the true-believers is astounding and the mass stupidity of the American people mind-boggling.

[bpilgrim]

4. this BETTER be covered tomorrow

by at LEAST npr :argh:

thank you, PATRIOTS :toast:

peace

[JPace]

5. furious george will not be deterred by anyone,

not even 650 foreign affairs experts. God told
him to do it and its "damn the torpedoes and
full speed ahead!

crazy furious george will not be side tracked
by truth or facts when its faith that counts.
Everyone just needs a little more faith.

[Karenina]

8. Just another dumb

"focus group."

[Nicholas_J]

6. Just another failled George W. Bush business venture

Just like his failed oil ventures, sinking dry well after dry well, then being bailed out by family connections to the Saudi Royal family, Dubya dril for WMD's in Iraq, comes up with another dry well, decided to go drilling for Al Qaeda links, comes up dray again, and this time expects the American people to bail him out again.

Bush's foreign affairs and national security decisions are another indication of a person who just cannot make a good decision, and then expects to be bailed out when he fails.

Iraq is simply another indication of the kinds of flawed decisions he made in the private sector, and an indication of the kind of flawed decision making that can be expected if he is re-elected.

The American people have just been hustled into investing 200 billion dollars in another failed Bush business venture, and it seems many Americans just do not have the good business sense to get out before they lose more.

[struggle4progress]

7. kick

:kick:

[fishface]

9. Fucking "yee haa" isn't a foreign policy..nt

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[Moderator]

10. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=900249