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Corroboration

It appears that someone in the Administration feels the same way I do:

"There are people here who are trying to destroy institutions that have served us well since World War II -- and still have some utility -- and they have no obvious replacement but raw American power," complained a senior administration official.

From the same article:

Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the administration has pursued an especially muscular foreign policy, but foreign officials say anger at the administration's style set in almost from the moment President Bush took office. The administration's rejection of the Kyoto treaty to stem global warming and Bush's abrupt dismissal of South Korea's "sunshine" policy toward North Korea set the impression that the administration was not interested in listening too closely to the concerns of its allies, diplomats said. The administration exacerbated tensions by refusing to join the International Criminal Court, withdrawing from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and announcing a doctrine of fighting preventive wars that surprised and concerned allies.

There's an old adage: You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. The Bush Administration, if its inhabitants ever knew that, appears to have forgotten. In the corporate world, when the CEO speaks, everybody jumps. Bush has read too much of his own ink; he seems to think he's CEO of the world, and the CEOs around him (Rumsfeld at Searle, Cheney at Halliburton) have done nothing to disabuse him of the notion. In fact, they may have infected him with it.