Bush Family Trait

I was just pondering the "family resemblance"...

• Bush, the senior, sent ambassador April Glaspie to meet with Saddam Hussein shortly before the first Gulf War. She assured Saddam Hussein "We have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait." Shortly afterward Hussein attacked.
• Bush, the junior, bumped into Vladimir Putin at the Olympic Games in Beijing and gave him a warm hug, this despite the fact that Russian troops had just crossed the Georgian border to "teach a lesson" to Georgia about sending troops into its rogue province of South Ossetia. Shortly afterward, Russia sent in hordes of troops and pushed across the rogue provinces of Abkahzia and South Ossetia and throughout Georgia.

Isn't it odd how completely incompetent this family is at geopolitics. But they have sat astride the upper echelons of the political elite in the US for over three generations!

Funny... people love to hear about the foibles and incompetencies of other nations and other people. But the US is as wracked and worm-eaten by fools and incompetents as any country. In fact it is showing itself to have reached the dizzying heights of incompetence shown by empires as they decline while pretending to still be on the ascent.

Here is the relevant point made by a piece in the UK's Telegraph newspaper:

Mr Saakashvilli may also have banked on support from his closest ally, US president George W Bush, whose administration is said to have given tacit support for a Georgian assault on South Ossetia in the believe that the territory could be recaptured within 48 hours.

But as events have unfolded differently, Washington has offered Georgia - one of the largest contributors of troops in Iraq - little more than lukewarm vocal support.

In a demonstration of the fact that Georgia could be abandoned by its chief ally, President Bush warmly embraced Mr Putin at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing on Friday.

With the West apparently unwilling to participate in a proxy war with Russia at a time when relations with Moscow are already highly strained, Georgia now faces potential isolation in its conflict with its giant neighbour.