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Tough Week for Bush's Middle East Strategy by Jim Lobe

by KEARNEY | April 2, 2007 at 04:47 am | 287 views | add comment | 0 recommendations

April 2, 2007

Tough Week for Bush's

Middle East Strategy

by Jim Lobe

To the extent the administration of President George W. Bush has a coherent Middle East policy, it took some serious hits this past week.

No, not the democracy-promotion strategy, although that didn't fare very well either given what even the State Department conceded was the obvious rigging of the constitutional-reform referendum that Amnesty International called the "greatest erosion of human rights" in Egypt in the past 25 years.