The New World Order

Humptily-dumptily
Pre-emptive Bush Doctrine
Hatched fully formed from a
Hawk's cranium.

Tried in Iraq, triggered
Counter-insurgency,
Now Iran's enriching
Uranium.

All I can do is state the obvious about the Bush Doctrine. Announced in 2002, the Doctrine, among other things, espoused the strategies of pre-emptive war and unilateralism, both of which were radical departures from traditional U.S. foreign policy. Largely the formulation of Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, et al., the new doctrine was the neocon fantasy blueprint for remaking the Middle East.

Needless to say, it has not worked so well. The war in Iraq has not proceeded according to the fantasy planning. And it has strained U.S. resources--and particularly U.S. troops--to alarming levels. In the meantime, other members of the so-called Axis of Evil seem to have decided that it is better to actually have weapons of mass destruction than to be just thought to have weapons of mass destruction. At least in the developing Iran situation, the Bush Administration seems to be embracing multilaterism again.

There wa something fitting and satisfying about using nonsense verse to write about the Bush Doctrine. I certainly couldn't figure out anything intelligent to say about it.