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Republican Senator Says Bush Is Incompetent
(Mark Memmott and Jill Lawrence, USA Today, November 28, 2007)
"This is one of the most arrogant, incompetent administrations I've ever seen personally or ever read about," the always blunt and frequently quotable Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., said yesterday during an appearance at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. . . . "This administration in my opinion has been as unprepared as any administration I'm aware of," Hagel added, "not only the ones that I have been somehow connected to and that's been every administration -- either I've been in Washington or worked within an administration or Congress or some way dealing with them since the first Nixon administration. I would rate this one the lowest in capacity, in capability, in policy, in consensus -- almost every area, I would give it the lowest grade. . . . "And you know, I think of this administration, what they could have done after 9/11, what was within their grasp. Every poll in the world showed 90% of the world for us. Iran had some of the first spontaneous demonstrations on the streets of Tehran supporting America. They squandered a tremendous amount of opportunity." . . .

Full Transcript of Hagel's Remarks

"I mean, I never understood how the greatest power on Earth, who prides itself in diplomatic achievements and world leadership in every area, every arena, every discipline -- and yet we are afraid to talk with someone or we apply preconditions like it's a great privilege to talk to the United States. That's not diplomacy. That's not what diplomacy is about."

"What has prevented a World War III or a nuclear holocaust, in my opinion, more than any one thing, is what Truman, Eisenhower and Marshall and others worked for after World War II -- building coalitions of common interest -- the United Nations, NATO, World Bank, IMF, dozens of multilateral banks and institutions. Why? Because they were focused on a common interest. This was not a zero-sum game. Alliances are absolutely critical."

posted by Lorenzo 12:37 AM