{"id":790,"date":"2002-07-07T14:02:40","date_gmt":"2002-07-07T21:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/07\/bushs-eroding-support\/"},"modified":"2002-07-07T14:02:40","modified_gmt":"2002-07-07T21:02:40","slug":"bushs-eroding-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/07\/07\/bushs-eroding-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush’s eroding support"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t— Writing in the National Post<\/a>, Matt Welch<\/a> examines Bush’s eroding popularity, here and abroad:<\/p>\n

The rest of the world is understandably more concerned with Washington’s expansion of external power — whether it be Bush’s new vague doctrine of pre-emption, his recent order authorizing CIA agents to kill Saddam Hussein (in self-defence), or his overt pressure on past and upcoming elections in Nicaragua, Slovakia, the Palestinian Authority and elsewhere. And the very real U.S. unilateralism — illustrated this week by its threat to withdraw from UN peacekeeping missions unless Americans receive an exemption from the new International Criminal Court — continues to annoy our long-time allies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The administration – especially the Justice Department – does seem to be in state of disarray, as we’ve seen by the FBI’s bizarre statements on terrorist Hadayet, the LAX shooter.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— Writing in the National Post, Matt Welch examines Bush’s eroding popularity, here and abroad: The rest of the world is understandably more concerned with Washington’s expansion of external power — whether it be Bush’s new vague doctrine of pre-emption, his recent order authorizing CIA agents to kill Saddam Hussein (in self-defence), or his overt … Continue reading “Bush’s eroding support”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-cK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}