Read between the lines in these two paragraphs from the Washington Post and you will see that GWB is not talking about warming up to our allies in NATO - nor is he talking about trying to defrost relationships with Iran, North Korea or most of Central and South America. What he's talking about is giving more power to the international corporations that are beginning to take over the governments of many nations and the lives of many people around the world.
WASHINGTON, March 12 — The president who made pre-emption and going it alone the watchwords of his first term is quietly turning in a new direction, warning at every opportunity of the dangers of turning the nation inward and isolationist, and making the case for international engagement on issues from national security to global economics.
President Bush's cautions on the dangers of pulling back behind American borders — in trade and investment, in immigration and in his effort to make the spread of democracy the signature of his second term — first cropped up in his State of the Union address six weeks ago.
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