The Chairman of the House International Relations Committee, a ranking member of the Republican Party has in a recent speech made the following observations:
Our Power, then has the grave liability of rendering our theories about the world immune from failure.
But by becoming deaf to easily discerned warning signs, we may ignore the long term costs that result
from our actions and dismiss reverses that should lead to a re-examination of our goals and means.
This statement made in a recent speech has the ring of a tried and tested statesman not a Bushman mouthing innane certitudes about Democracy, Iraq and the so called frontier of Freedom.Hyde is certainly right when he says that USA has reached a point of imperial overreach and it is time to see what the Bush administration has really accomplished. He is on record in the House for pointing out that the Bush strategy in Iraq is wrong and the sooner the Us withdraws from Iraq the better it would be for peace in the region.He had pointed out that US presece in the region is virtually destabalising the region. Henry Hyde a true conservative has finally shown the Bushmen for what they are: AGGRESSIVE MISGUIDED LIBERALS who successfullly packaged themselves as neo conservatives. Francis Fukuyama in his critique off the neo con movement ibn his latest book After the Neocons has mercilessly critiqued the Bush administrations for it all round failure to promote a genuine conservative agenda. The conservative agenda was hijacked by the Bushmen setting back the cause by at least 2 decades.
Henry Hyde and Francis Fufuyama both regad the present war against terror as a mere shadow boxing. The Middle East is not a significant player in the 21 st Century. In fact Al Qaeda never posed any threat to the security and strategic interests of the US and Hyde is right to point out that the threat was used only to mobilise the US population is a wasteful and unneccessary war .
There is one point on which Hyde is wrong. China will notbe the pole around which a new international order is likely to emerge. Chinadoes not have the means on the inclination for the kind of imperoial overreach shown by the USA. The real challenge to the USA will come from Europe. Hyde is certainly spot on when he advocated a more cautious foreign policy. No Empire lasts for ever. Even the US will go the way of the Roman and the Mongol empires.