From a reader:
We have all heard how President Bush’s strongest issue for his upcoming election is his tough foreign policy that shows the rest of the world not to mess with the United States, and you are “with us or against us.” Evident by Spain’s recent election, they feel safer being “against us.”
We are starting to witness the failure of Bush’s foreign policy to bring together a multi-lateral world and which further alienates long time US allies. People of the world are so frustrated with the richest and most influential country’s leader, that they are voting for the anti-war and anti-American Socialist party.
The newly elected leader in Spain, Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, has been clear about his opposition of US foreign policy in announcing he would withdraw Spanish troops serving in Iraq if the UN does not take control by June 30th.
Now one of the strongest US allies will have a strain on their relations because the people of Spain have spoken with their ballots to elect a leader who strongly opposes President Bush’s reckless policies.
The misleading effects of the Iraq War have just begun when it comes to the loss of foreign allies, as one of Europe’s most influential countries has come out and said “you cannot organize a war with lies.”
If the people of Spain have spoken, it might be the start of different leaders who support Bush policies to lose in their upcoming elections. Tony Blair (Britain) and Silvio Berluseonin (Italy) might be next to lose because of their support of Bush’s foreign policy. Could we then lose these very important allies? I hope not.
I think Bush’s tough polices on this "war on terror" are his weakness because of the support we are losing around the world. Fear can only work for brief periods of time…then people want change. The train bombing in Spain has caused fear and panic in Spain. President Bush has used fear to bring support to his candidacy. But as evident of Spain’s elections, fear could bring a change even in American leadership…change that could save our country’s much needed foreign allies.
Written by Karan Gill, a NEXTopia reader
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