A certain amount of people in the media have observed that President Bush's 2nd Inagural speech is a warning shot to all dictators within the World. While it is true that the President has given a warning to the Egyptians, Saudis, Pakistanis, Chinese and various others in what Secretary of State Rice calls the "Outposts of Tyranny", he meant it as a generational fight. Reagan dealt with such a situation with Marcos, Chun Doo Hwan (ROK) and Pinochet. Such is spelled out in Duncan Currie's Weekly Standard article "Bush Versus "Our SOBs"".
The best part of the article is this quote by Charles Krauthammer:
"The essence of foreign policy is deciding which son of a bitch to support and which to oppose--in 1941, Hitler or Stalin; in 1972, Brezhnev or Mao; in 1979, Somoza or Ortega. One has to choose. A blanket anti-son of a bitch policy . . . is soothing, satisfying and empty. It is not a policy at all but righteous self-delusion."
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