Bush A Neocon No More?

[Ivon Denosovich]

This is interesting.

But the truth is that soon after the takeover of Iraq, the administration gradually began acting in the Middle East pretty much like its predecessors. It was compelled to rely on the multilateral institutions it had spurned in the run-up to the Iraq war, implicitly accepting that U.S. military might was not enough to resolve all problems. As for its commitment to an agenda of democracy and freedom, while officially this was at the heart of American concerns after Bush's second inaugural address, in reality by then it was already in decline as a policy guide.

At the very least, the administration has confessed disbanding the Iraqi army to be a mistake and they're no longer satisfied to do everything for the nation.

 

[poncho]

Bush was never a neocon. He just trusted them to make all the policy decisions. He's not the decider he claims to be at all. Bush's policy was one of non-nation building or non-military adventurism until he started listening to the D.C. chickenhawks.