Well, you know what they say...the rats will flee a sinking ship, and thus, the neo-cons are fleeing a sinking Bush Administration.
Addressing military cadets graduating from West Point, Mr Bush reaffirmed at the weekend that the US "will not rest until the promise of liberty reaches every people in every nation".
But as the US struggles to assert itself on the international stage, the president's most radical supporters now dismiss this as mere rhetoric, and traditional conservatives are questioning the wisdom of a democratisation strategy that has brought unpleasant consequences in the Middle East.
Administration officials speak privately of a sense of fatigue over the worsening crisis in Iraq that has drained energy from other important policy issues. Senior officials are leaving -- not so unusual in a second term, but still giving the sense of a sinking ship run in some quarters by relatively inexperienced crew.
Hey, I've heard that rats are really smart creatures. The rats in Washington should know that conditions in DC are becoming less than desirable.
So while Bush is still giving his "bring 'em on" speech, the neo-cons are giving an obituary to Bush's "freedom doctrine".
"Bush killed his own doctrine," they said, describing the final blow as the resumption of diplomatic relations with Libya. This betrayal of Libyan democracy activists, they said, came after the US watched Egypt abrogate elections, ignored the collapse of the "Cedar Revolution" in Lebanon, abandoned imprisoned Chinese dissidents and started considering a peace treaty with Stalinist North Korea.
The neo-conservatives offered no explanation for desertion of the doctrine, other than a desire to make quick but transitory short-term gains. "The president continues to believe his own preaching, but his administration has become incapable of making the hard choices those beliefs require," they wrote.
And you still think that they've served only the president his whole time in office? Bush is not the decider, no matter what he'd have you believe.
Hey, it's hard out there for "the Prez". Bush and his fellow rats are finding out that you can't please all of your bases. They should take a lesson from another Republican. It was Lincoln who said that you can't please all people all of the time.
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