BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S
FOREIGN POLICY:
IS OUT OF CONTROL
By: Joe Sansone
The Bush administration’s foreign policy is heading toward disaster. It is a policy that is reckless, aggressive, and a danger to both the American public and the world at large. If its goal was to create a safer world, then it has failed, and in fact, has created a more dangerous world.
Arguably, the Bush administration has prompted North Korea to take its aggressive stance. In Bush’s 2002 “Axis Of Evil” speech, he threatened North Korea when there was no need to do so. Maybe it was to show that Bush’s foreign policy wasn’t just anti-Muslim, but it was stupid nonetheless.
So how does North Korea respond?
They go nuclear and do it in a belligerent and warlike manner. They declare that they are ready for war and that sanctions or any such action would be considered an act of war.
The United States response has only justified North Korea’s methods even more. It has handled the North Korea situation delicately and with kid gloves even though North Korea has gone out of its way to show its willingness to go to war with the United States.
Why?
Partly because of the nearly 40,000 United States troops separating North Korea from South Korea. The only way to protect those troops would be to use tactical nuclear weapons. North Korea’s small nuclear arsenal unleashed could set off an unthinkable chain of events.
Compare that with the United States policy toward Iraq. Iraq has not gone nuclear and has not threatened war, yet they may soon be attacked by the United States.
The Bush administration’s policies make the argument for a nation to go nuclear. It appears that joining the nuclear club exempts a nation from Bush’s pre-emptive military policy. An unprovoked invasion of Iraq will only aid global paranoia, which will only lead to more countries desiring to join the nuclear club.
Does this policy make the world safer?
The recklessness of foreign policy can be seen in an Iraq invasion. The United States will not be going to Iraq to push them out of another country like it did in the past with Kuwait. It will be going to take over its government and occupy its territory.
If Iraq is half of the threat that the administration claims, then it will certainly use chemical or biological weapons on United States troops. The United States will respond with tactical nuclear weapons for certain.
Imagine the global contempt for the United States if such a scenario developed. The United States would have attacked a nation that did not attack it and it also would have used nuclear weapons in the process.
Even if the war against Iraq is smooth so to speak, its occupation afterward may not be. United States troops in Iraq and throughout the region will be targets of terrorist attacks from civilians.
In this time of undeclared war with terrorists, the United States border policies, or lack of them, must be considered part of its foreign policy, or at least defense policy. The Bush administration has negligently refused to defend the nations borders and ports of entry. It has even floated amnesty for illegal aliens a couple times and has looked the other way with regards to the back door amnesty offered by Matricula cards which are issued to illegal aliens and felons by the Mexican government and accepted by nearly forty cities and even by many banks as a form of ID.
An attack on Iraq would likely cause sympathetic Islamic militants to target and commit terrorism in the United States like they did on September 11th 2001. If truck loads of illegal drugs can be smuggled into the United States then so can Anthrax, Small Pox, and even nuclear weapons.
Why does the Bush administration refuse to close the borders, which is the only means of preventing terrorism, while it is about to begin an offensive campaign abroad, which will provide further motivation for terrorists?
NATO may already be fracturing, as divisions seem to grow by the day over the best way to proceed with Iraq. France, Germany, and Russia have all called for more inspectors and have thus far blocked NATO involvement in the war.
NATO was a defensive military alliance to counter Russia’s Soviet Union. Now France and Germany, two prominent NATO members have banded with Russia, which was the whole reason that NATO existed, to try and avert the United States from starting a war.
Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld refers to Germany and France as “Old Europe”. Arrogance! Is that how we refer to friendly nations?
Is the world now perceiving the United States as it once did the Soviet Union? If two members of NATO and the military alliance’s former adversary, Russia, have banded together politically to counter the United States, then how unlikely is it that military alliances will be formed to counter the threat posed by the United States? Will the Middle East Arab and Islamic states form a defensive military alliance in the coming years? Will Southeast Asia do the same?
Hasn’t anyone even considered the possibility of escalation? If the war does escalate, the United States may have to commit genocide on a global scale.
Bush’s foreign policy seems like that of an adolescent. Equipped with the power and prowess of manhood, yet lacking the maturity to wield it properly. With great power, comes great responsibility, and that is something that may be lacking at present.
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