Jato I think the message that Bush sends is directly tied to his foreign policy. Coming out and talking about specific rouge nations, calling them out is a blunder IMO. I do not think the current state of affairs shows in anyway that the current foreign policy is working. We went to Iraq with no exit plan, plain and simple. The fact that most of the world is unhappy with us is a sign of poor foreign policy. With bad blood between the US and the rest of the world we are unable to be players in the world. How are we to work with other nations in this Multi-Polar world if we do not work at working with the world instead of unilatteraly? And don't tell me that just because the world doesn't like most of our foreign policy that is ok, that it has nothing to do with our current policy. It is indeed linked, it's a sign is the world is not working with us that something is wrong.
