Comments on: International Negligence http://themoderatevoice.com/19998/international-negligence/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Mon, 28 May 2012 18:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: StockBoySF http://themoderatevoice.com/19998/international-negligence/comment-page-1/#comment-149880 StockBoySF Fri, 30 May 2008 05:57:06 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/foreign-policy/19998/international-negligence/#comment-149880 Thanks, Jeb- great post! I've always thought the Bush administration was out for money and power. Whether by having the energy industry write environmental policy, misleading the country into war with Iraq (for money, at the expense of the true war on terror in Pakistan/Afghanistan), valuing and rewarding loyalty over competence, demonizing anyone who questioned anything the Bush administration did, trashing the constitution, etc. Over the years the Bush misdeeds just built up more and more, each necessitating another action worse than the other, just to keep those misdeeds under wrap. <br><br>The Bush administration has no idea of the role of government (beyond rewarding one's friends) and has no interest in doing the hard work and analysis to tackle threats and rising world problems. Bush in college was a cheerleader and his administration has been more like a glee club singing its own praises on stage while neglecting the country and world. Thanks, Jeb- great post! I've always thought the Bush administration was out for money and power. Whether by having the energy industry write environmental policy, misleading the country into war with Iraq (for money, at the expense of the true war on terror in Pakistan/Afghanistan), valuing and rewarding loyalty over competence, demonizing anyone who questioned anything the Bush administration did, trashing the constitution, etc. Over the years the Bush misdeeds just built up more and more, each necessitating another action worse than the other, just to keep those misdeeds under wrap.

The Bush administration has no idea of the role of government (beyond rewarding one's friends) and has no interest in doing the hard work and analysis to tackle threats and rising world problems. Bush in college was a cheerleader and his administration has been more like a glee club singing its own praises on stage while neglecting the country and world.

]]> By: JSpencer http://themoderatevoice.com/19998/international-negligence/comment-page-1/#comment-149879 JSpencer Fri, 30 May 2008 02:50:27 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/foreign-policy/19998/international-negligence/#comment-149879 Agreed. The crimes of negligence will almost certainly have the more serious and longterm ramifications. Wasted time, energy, treasure, lives, national credibility, and opportunity - all because this administration didn't have the first clue about how to triage - which would have first required it to have a working understanding of important issues in the first place... which it didn't. Agreed. The crimes of negligence will almost certainly have the more serious and longterm ramifications. Wasted time, energy, treasure, lives, national credibility, and opportunity – all because this administration didn't have the first clue about how to triage – which would have first required it to have a working understanding of important issues in the first place… which it didn't.

]]> By: Cernig http://themoderatevoice.com/19998/international-negligence/comment-page-1/#comment-149878 Cernig Fri, 30 May 2008 00:28:26 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/foreign-policy/19998/international-negligence/#comment-149878 Great post, Jeb. I've been saying for a couple of years now that the geopolitical changes brought about by climate change (of which the opening of the NW Passage is just one) are a massive FP challenge - but no-one has seemed to want to face the fact that Russia, Canada, Normay, the UK and others have stolen a head start on making the most of those changes while the denialists have left America back on the starting line.<br><br>Regards, C Great post, Jeb. I've been saying for a couple of years now that the geopolitical changes brought about by climate change (of which the opening of the NW Passage is just one) are a massive FP challenge – but no-one has seemed to want to face the fact that Russia, Canada, Normay, the UK and others have stolen a head start on making the most of those changes while the denialists have left America back on the starting line.

Regards, C

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