Date published: 2006/09/20
The BBC says:
US President George W Bush has defended his policies on the Middle East at the annual UN General Assembly gathering of world leaders in New York.
Mr Bush said democracy was gaining ground in the region and terrorists were being marginalised.
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On the Middle East, Mr Bush rejected criticism that his policies were destabilising the region: "This argument rests on a false assumption - that the Middle East was stable to begin with."He said recent elections showed that democracy was progressing in many countries, including Iraq and Afghanistan.
"A world beyond terror where the extremists are marginalised by the peaceful majority" was within reach, the US president said.
Bush ever the comedian. You can just about negate any statement he makes and get closer to the truth. When others claim that his policies have (patently) destabilised the Middle East, that is not to say that the Middle East was stable in the first place. Making a bad situation worse is not a great claim to fame, especially when it costs a few trillion dollars to do so. And since he is responsible for more death and destruction than almost anyone else this century, he carries no moral authority on international affairs. (Of course the century is young, and worse leaders are bound to follow.)
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