Spoetnik
18-10-04, 20:36
Ex-Security Adviser Rips Bush Diplomacy
Sun Oct 17, 6:53 AM ET
WASHINGTON - The national security adviser under the first President Bush (news - web sites) says the current president acted contemptuously toward NATO (news - web sites) and Europe after Sept. 11 and is trying to cooperate now out of desperation to "rescue a failing venture" in Iraq (news - web sites) and Afghanistan (news - web sites).
Brent Scowcroft, a mentor to the current national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites), also said in an interview published in England that Bush is inordinately influenced by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites).
"Sharon just has him wrapped around his little finger," Scowcroft told London's Financial Times. "I think the president is mesmerized."
Scowcroft said the Bush administration's "unilateralist" position was partly responsible for the post-Sept. 11, 2001, decline of the trans-Atlantic relationship.
"It's in general bad," he said. "It's not really hostile, but there's an edge to it."
Early on, he said, "We had gotten contemptuous of Europeans and their weaknesses. We had really turned unilateral."
Although slightly diminished since then, the unilateralist policies remain fundamentally little changed, Scowcroft said. Recent overtures to cooperate in Afghanistan and Iraq with the United Nations (news - web sites) and NATO were "as much an act of desperation as anything else ... to rescue a failing venture."
On Israel and Sharon, the former security adviser said Sharon calls Bush after strongly retaliating for a Palestinian suicide attack and says: "`I'm on the front line of terrorism,' and the president says, `Yes, you are.'"
Scowcroft said Sharon "has been nothing but trouble."
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&u=/ap/20041017/ap_on_re_us/scowcroft_bush_4&printer=1
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Sun Oct 17, 6:53 AM ET
WASHINGTON - The national security adviser under the first President Bush (news - web sites) says the current president acted contemptuously toward NATO (news - web sites) and Europe after Sept. 11 and is trying to cooperate now out of desperation to "rescue a failing venture" in Iraq (news - web sites) and Afghanistan (news - web sites).
Brent Scowcroft, a mentor to the current national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites), also said in an interview published in England that Bush is inordinately influenced by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites).
"Sharon just has him wrapped around his little finger," Scowcroft told London's Financial Times. "I think the president is mesmerized."
Scowcroft said the Bush administration's "unilateralist" position was partly responsible for the post-Sept. 11, 2001, decline of the trans-Atlantic relationship.
"It's in general bad," he said. "It's not really hostile, but there's an edge to it."
Early on, he said, "We had gotten contemptuous of Europeans and their weaknesses. We had really turned unilateral."
Although slightly diminished since then, the unilateralist policies remain fundamentally little changed, Scowcroft said. Recent overtures to cooperate in Afghanistan and Iraq with the United Nations (news - web sites) and NATO were "as much an act of desperation as anything else ... to rescue a failing venture."
On Israel and Sharon, the former security adviser said Sharon calls Bush after strongly retaliating for a Palestinian suicide attack and says: "`I'm on the front line of terrorism,' and the president says, `Yes, you are.'"
Scowcroft said Sharon "has been nothing but trouble."
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&u=/ap/20041017/ap_on_re_us/scowcroft_bush_4&printer=1
Dit klinkt verdacht veel als het oude anti-semitische sprookjes dat de wereld wordt gecontrolleerd door Joden. Gelukkig hebben we vele specialisten op het gebied van anti-semitisme op dit forum rondsporen en hier wel raad mee weten.