Bush Doctrine A Success

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Bush Doctrine A Success
By Brian P. Yates

Iraq war critics have made no secret of their opinion (or is it desire?)
that "Bush's war" has not made the world any safer. In fact, they whine that
it will actually upset the balance in the Middle East and destabilize the
world. Yes, my friends, the world is actually a more dangerous place because
a vicious and brutal dictator is in U.S. custody. Liberal logic on display.
This having been noted, it becomes all the more interesting to observe
recent international events.

North Korea (a charter member of the Axis of Evil, one may recall) offered
last Tuesday to freeze its nuclear weapons and power production programs.
Secretary of State Colin Powell told reporters that "They in effect said
they won't test, and they implied that they would give up all aspects of
their nuclear program, not just the weapons program."

While it remains to be seen whether or not we can actually believe North
Korea's offer, it is undoubtedly a step in the right direction in terms of
ending their WMD threat. And it is certainly very interesting to note the
timing of this offer. Before the Iraq war, Kim Jong Il was all bluster; now:
'okay okay let's try diplomacy.'

Iran, another Axis of Evil charter member, also recently agreed to allow
international nuclear inspections. If you're keeping score at home, this is
one Axis of Evil member decimated; two members scrambling not to be next.
And we haven't even gotten to Libya yet.

Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, openly sponsored international
terrorist movements and engaged in a radical political philosophy, blending
Arab nationalism with populism and Islam. Recently however, Gaddafi has been
scrambling to open diplomatic channels with the U.S. and Europe.

He began talks with Britain a week before the preemptive war on Saddam over
WMD's. Before the dust had even begun to settle on Saddam's just-vacated
hole, he rushed to announce that Libya would renounce all programs to
develop nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. This would seem to
suggest that Gaddafi was afraid of meeting Saddam's fate.

As an interesting side-note to these discussions; Gaddafi began his talks
with Britain and then secretly negotiated his deal with Britain and the
United States.the two countries who led the Iraq war. Saddam's pen pal
(France) would have probably been more sympathetic to Libya (big shocker
there) was simply ignored by Gaddafi.

According to John O'Sullivan of the Chicago Sun-Times, Gaddafi told Italian
Premier Silvio Berlusconi that after the invasion of Iraq and subsequent
fall of Saddam he was afraid of the United States.

And according to CNN, Gaddafi acknowledged that the war in Iraq may have
played a role in his decision to dismantle his country's WMD programs. (You
know CNN just hated having to report that.) Even former U.N. chief weapons
inspectors Hans Blix admitted that "Gaddafi could have been scared by what
he saw happen in Iraq."

Rather than the world having become a more dangerous place, it actually
seems that the Bush Doctrine is working and being met with great success.
Rogue nations and sponsors of terrorism realize that the president means
business when it comes to the national security of the United States. He's
not going to screw around, he's not going to bomb aspirin factories to focus
attention elsewhere, and he's not going to send in Jimmy Carter. He's going
to deal with the threat head on.

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Atheism teaches that there is no God, hence no God-given rights. That
ideology coupled with a system that believed in the superiority of the state
at the expense of the individual was murderously synergistic.