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The Global Citizen: President Bush
Historians are of the opinion that President George W. Bush will go down in the books as possibly the worst president of the United States. Polls published by CNN suggest that Bush is also the most unpopular president in America's history. Americans gave Mr. Bush a 70% disapproval rating on how he is handling his job as the Nation's leader.
When President Bush attacked presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama before the Israeli Knesset for his determination to engage America's enemies, he triggered a fierce response from Democrats. The responses ranged from outrage at the President's willingness to use foreign policy as a political cudgel beyond the waters edge to substantive disagreement based on the President's foreign policy failures in the Middle East and beyond.
The Bush administration has bent over backwards to cater to business interests. At least, that's been my perception from the outside.
Last week, I met with an influential operative in the business community about the Law of the Sea. We agree on the importance of U.S. accession to the Convention as critical to national security, business interests and global sustainability -- but probably little else.
Yesterday, President Bush ordered a reduction of the U.S. nuclear stockpile, which would shrink to under 1/4th of its size at the end of the Cold War. This announcement supports a previous decision in 2004, which aimed to cut the stockpile by 50% of the 2001 level by 2012. Yesterday's order will speed up the process; reductions are scheduled to take place by the end of this year. In addition, President Bush wants to cut the remaining stockpile by another 15% by 2012.
Today, October 24, is United Nations Day. This day should remind all of us of our nation's important relationship with the only global forum where all countries can work together to solve the problems that we cannot solve alone.
If you think about it the U.S. and the U.N. are sort of like an old married couple.
On Wednesday, President Bush's Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey reaffirmed our nation's commitment to international justice and the rule of law as it relates to U.S. interrogation policy.
My article on the President's UN speech ran in the Washington Examiner .
It includes a 3 step plan for the President:
1. He can ensure that the U.S. provides the International Criminal Court with the information it needs to bring Salah Gosh and other perpetrators to justice.
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