American Entropy: 'Axis of Evil' fails

17 August 2005

'Axis of Evil' fails

Currently in Canada, B.C. looking at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Vancouver is a great city; now one of my favorites.

While here I ran across a WaPo story outlining how the policy around the 'Axis of Evil' has failed and bushCo. has reversed it's policy on all three fronts

First, multilateral talks orchestrated by the United States to pressure North Korea to give up nuclear weapons adjourned last week after 13 days without agreement. Then Iran restarted its program to convert uranium, in defiance of the United States and Europe. Finally, negotiators in Iraq failed to draft a new constitution by Monday's deadline amid an unrelenting guerrilla war against U.S. forces.

None of these developments may be fatal to Bush's policy goals, but the quick succession of setbacks has left his national security team privately discouraged and searching for answers. Whereas Bush in his first term vowed to reinvent foreign policy with a new doctrine of military preemption to deal with rogue states, he has largely dropped such talk since the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Instead, he has favored diplomacy with Tehran and Pyongyang and nation-building with Baghdad -- yet the old-fashioned improvisation has yielded similarly murky results.

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