This is what makes President Bush is so dangerous

It isn’t just the illegal wars, the violation of privacy rights, the revising of our Constitution and the polarization of American politics that is an issue. Countries are becoming skeptical, defiant, irritated, and combative with the United States.

Reuters is reporting that Ecuardor is demanding the U.S. allow them to build a base on our soil in exchange for a renewed lease on Ecuardorian soil for our military. Correa refused Washington’s lease on the Manta air base, it expires in 2009 and happens to be a vital region for counter-narcotics surveillance operations on Pacific drug-running routes.

“We’ll renew the base on one condition: that they let us put a base in Miami — an Ecuadorean base,” Correa said in an interview during a trip to Italy.

“If there’s no problem having foreign soldiers on a country’s soil, surely they’ll let us have an Ecuadorean base in the United States.”

Do you think for a moment we’d have nations using these kind of arguments under President Clinton? This is a serious issue, Ecuadorians want Americans out. They, like many countries, now question the validity of U.S. foreign policy. The U.S. reputation has taken a major hit with President Bush as our leader. We no longer command the respect we once did.

When President Clinton used to travel around the world (that’s President Pervert for you Republicans) he was loved, people everywhere wanted to see this great American and world leader. When President Clinton spoke, people listened, he was respected and appreciated by our allies. President Bush destroyed America’s reputation, he made it difficult for the U.S. to remain an admirable nation, one to base other budding Democracies off of. The world looks at us and thinks we are evil, greedy, intolerant, hateful and hypocritical. True or not, the world no longer regards us as trustworthy and many people would rather not associate with our country.

Canadians hate us for crying out loud, and why shouldn’t they? Our relationship with world leaders will continue to take a hit and it wouldn’t surprise me if this is the first of numerous nations that choose to dissociate themselves from the U.S. All we can do now is wait for the President to declare them a terrorist state so that we may ‘liberate’ them.

Fred Soto is an Attorney and Entrepreneur from the Silicon Valley.
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