McCain claimed that Clinton was too much carrot and no stick.
But Bush is all stick and no carrots.
In fact they are getting fat on both the sticks and the carrots. Feasting on the products of their failure to do the "hard work" to preempt wars and WMD proliferation.
[My above thoughts were from two days ago, but all links are thanks to the Center for American Progress and Eric Alterman's Think Again: Blaming Success, Upholding Failure]
The success and failure of the Clinton and Bush administrations are in that order.
As Bush has said "war is hard work", but as I have said, that is why they should have done the "hard work" needed before war was "a last resort".
Now there is even more "hard work",not just to change the course but fill the holes that have been dug.
[Finally, I am not sure where I expressed the concern quite some time ago, but the recent balking by China on "punitive" sanctions reflects the idea that some countries will not make even preemptive diplomatic "hard work" any easier. SEE above link even more "hard work" in the form of an MP3 discussion to Stop North Korea Now]
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