Thursday, January 17, 2008

Bush's Middle East Hopes

Bush's Middle East Hopes
by Daniel PipesJerusalem PostJanuary 17, 2008

George W. Bush's policies toward the Middle East and Islam will loom large when historians judge his presidency. On the occasion of his concluding his 8-day, 6-country trip to the Middle East and entering his final year in office, I offer some provisional assessments.
His hallmark has been a readiness to break with long-established bipartisan positions and adopt stunningly new policies, and by late 2005 he had laid out his novel approach in four major areas.
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