He did it his way

David Kaiser has good post on his blog History Unfolding called the Lebanon War which included this bit which seemed to mesh nicely with my recent post on the failed Bush Doctrine -- what a pompous label for smashing things and hoping that they get better -- I prefer to call it The Anus Touch.

The President’s statement, like so many of his statements on Iraq, insists that eventually the population of the Middle East will see things our way. He apparently believes this despite the lack of any evidence that they do, or that his policies are doing anything but making them more anti-American. More serious is his statement that the international force could help seal the Syrian-Lebanese border, which it has no intention, according to published reports, of doing.

Ironically, these statements begin to recognize, in a backhanded fashion, that the United States cannot accomplish all that much in the world without an international consensus behind it. That is why the foreign policy establishment has opposed the thrust of Bush Administration foreign policy from the beginning, and events are proving them right.