LEBANESE CONFLICT A GOOD EXAMPLE OF GEORGE BUSH'S FAILED FOREIGN POLICY

The current bloody conflict outside Tripoli where the Lebanese Army is shelling a Palestinian refugee camp with over 40,000 inhabitants is just one more instance of the bankrupt and catastrophic foreign policy of George W. Bush. By siding with Israel in the last Israel Lebanon War and allowing Israel to bomb apartment buildings, homes and even the Beirut International Airport, the Bush regime showed once again that the United States government fails to take seriously the complaints of the Palestinian people.

Furthermore, the U.S. under Bush makes the simplistic mistake of bunching Hezbollah, Hamas, the Taliban and Al Qaeda into one bundle, as if they were all terrorists of the same stripe with the same aims and goals. Talk about amateur foreign policy!

Wherever one looks at the work of the United States - Iraq, Afghanistan, Gaza, Lebanon, Somalia - we see the same religious and social and economic upheaval. We see bloody conflicts, civil wars, killing of civilians, destruction of infrastructure, hatred of Americans. And all of this is due to George W. Bush and his off-the-cuff foreign policy.