The Foreign Policy of the Bush Administration:
Provincial and poorly informed in terms of the understanding of the world which shapes its goals, strategy, and tactics; unilateral and aggressive in the use of superior military force to project the application of those goals worldwide. If you concede that "provincial and poorly informed" is equivalent to "ignorant", and that the imposition of one person's will upon another by virtue of superior force without the consent of anyone but the imposer is "thuggish", you can summarize the policy as "ignorant and thuggish." It is unworthy of the history, traditions and people of the nation it is discrediting abroad, and unworthy of the infinitely precious and terrible sacrifices it daily extracts from the nation's men and women in uniform. It does not require clairvoyance to see that in the long view those sacrifices will have accomplished nothing but a change of nameplates on the door to the office of "Despot in Iraq", and an increase in the sorts of ill will toward the United States which give rise to terrorist attacks on its citizens.