Iraq & the Environment: Bush’s Single Policy
The failures of the Bush Administration are innumerable, but, of those that impact the global community, two of the greatest failures are the Iraq War and his response to global climate change. How could these two major policies become so screwed up? Because his response to both problems is the same.
Over the next two weeks, thousands of government officials from around the world will descend upon the Indonesian island of Bali to address the world’s global climate problem. Their mission is to rework current global climate treaties and formulate long-term policy. Their problem is the United States of America.
By far, the biggest obstacle to forging a new accord by 2009 is the United States, analysts say. Senior Bush administration officials say the administration will not agree to a new treaty with binding limits on emissions.
Instead, President Bush recently proposed that the world’s biggest countries work toward a common, long-term goal set decades in the future, without specific targets or limits, and more immediate goals set by individual nations using whatever means they choose.
No binding limits. No specific targets. Doesn’t that sound familiar?
Congress and the White House are locked in a dispute over Mr Bush’s request for $196bn in emergency funding for the wars. Democrats, who control both houses, want the legislation to include a goal to withdraw US troops from Iraq by the end of next year. But Mr Bush has threatened to veto any bill that includes such restrictions.
Bush’s attitude toward both problems is the same: “I get what I want the way I want it.” A corrupt executive branch and effectively powerless Congress have allowed President Bush to institute policies that have divided the country, wrecked the economy, and destroyed our credibility, but the effects of our Iraq and environment policies–or, I should say, Iraq and environment policy–transcend our borders and impact the whole world. Can we do nothing to stop this madness?
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