Bush’s Foreign-Policy Hypocrisy
Feb 29th, 2008 by nick
In his recent Newsweek column, Fareed Zakaria rebuts Bush’s argument that democracy is the antidote to terrorism, and shows that Bush, in his support for Pervez Musharraf in Pakistan, doesn’t even follow his own rhetoric. Some choice quotes from the article:
“Pakistan took Bush’s advice last week… The results returned to power civilian parties that had based their campaigns on opposition to the rule of President Pervez Musharraf. And what has been the reaction of the Bush administration? Awkwardness and ambivalence toward the victors, affection toward Musharraf… In the most important real-world test of the Bush thesis – that democaracy destroys terrorism – George Bush finds himself opposed to his own rhetoric.”
This point is extremely important. If Bush himself doesn’t even believe that democracy squelches terrorism, then what are we doing in Iraq?