I touched on precisely this point in my column in The Hill on Wednesday but today in The American Prospect Ivo Daalder makes it more pointedly and concisely. And on top of that, he’s Ivo Daalder and I’m not …
This is the third election of a major ally in which the party running against George Bush won. Look at Germany in ’02, South Korea in ’03, and now Spain. The message is: If you want to get re-elected, don’t go to Crawford. Bush is a political liability — in Europe, in particular. His foreign policy has trampled on the European views and it’s now resulting in the election of governments that do not support his approach.
Think about it. And if it doesn’t click with you, pick up a copy of Sun Tzu and think about it again.
