Off The Leash

clipped from www.powerlineblog.com Noah Pollak has written a devastating critique of Bush administration foreign policy in its waning days. Pollak begins with John Bolton's assessment: "Nothing can erase the ineffable sadness of an American presidency, like this one, in total intellectual collapse.” Then, after a survey of administration policy with respect to North Korea, Lebanon, and Israel, Pollak offers his own summation: The State Department has been allowed to slip completely off its leash and the whole gang is pursuing its two most favorite pastimes: obsessing over the Palestinians, and making concessions to America’s enemies. Only six more months to go. This conclusion sounds harsh, but I believe it is largely supported by the evidence Pollak cites (Bolton's is excessive only by virtue of the word "total").