{"id":2874,"date":"2006-07-24T08:58:42","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T15:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/24\/legacy-watch\/"},"modified":"2008-02-28T09:10:05","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T16:10:05","slug":"legacy-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/24\/legacy-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Legacy Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2006\/07\/22\/eveningnews\/main1826838.shtml\">CBS News interview with William F. Buckley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Buckley finds himself parting ways with President Bush, whom he praises as a decisive leader but admonishes for having strayed from true conservative principles in his foreign policy.In particular, Buckley views the three-and-a-half-year Iraq War as a failure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we&#8217;ve experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign,&#8221; Buckley says.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if the Bush administration has been distracted by Iraq, Buckley says &#8220;I think it has been engulfed by Iraq, by which I mean no other subject interests anybody other than Iraq&#8230; The continued tumult in Iraq has overwhelmed what perspectives one might otherwise have entertained with respect to, well, other parts of the Middle East with respect to Iran in particular.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite evidence that Iran is supplying weapons and expertise to Hezbollah in the conflict with Israel, Buckley rejects neo-conservatives who favor a more interventionist foreign policy, including a pre-emptive air strike against Iran and its nuclear facilities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we find there is a warhead there that is poised, the range of it is tested, then we have no alternative. But pending that, we have to ask ourselves, &#8216;What would the Iranian population do?'&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Asked what President Bush&#8217;s foreign policy legacy will be to his successor, Buckley says &#8220;There will be no legacy for Mr. Bush. I don&#8217;t believe his successor would re-enunciate the words he used in his second inaugural address because they were too ambitious. So therefore I think his legacy is indecipherable.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a CBS News interview with William F. Buckley: Buckley finds himself parting ways with President Bush, whom he praises as a decisive leader but admonishes for having strayed from true conservative principles in his foreign policy.In particular, Buckley views the three-and-a-half-year Iraq War as a failure. &#8220;If you had a European prime minister who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-william-f-buckley","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}