World wide foreign policy and Iraq

The more power we've given the Iraqis, the more violence has increased. Bush wants to turn over security to a government whose members are heading militias. That's a recipe for civil war.

I don't know what tools Bush is talking about providing Iraq, but I hope it isn't weapons. Given Bush's current path, those weapons will just end up in terrorists hands.

ETA: It turns out that Maliki means weapons. Helicopters and other weapons for fighting insurgents. From everything we've seen, militias will get their hands on those weapons shortly after we provide them.

Bush continues to surrender America's power and initiative around the world:

• Bush asks China for help with North Korea instead of holding China responsible for providing North Korea everything they need to build a bomb.
• Bush wears wizard costumes with Putin while Putin tries to overthrow the pro-American government in Georgia and sells missiles to Iran.
• Syria assassinates Lebanese ministers and Iran continues to work towards the bomb, and Bush allows Iraq to tell us to leave faster while Iraq talks to Iran and Syria.

Bush's anemic foreign policy is making our enemies bold and ever stronger. Trade is our biggest foreign policy lever, but we trade freely with enemies to the point that nobody needs to be our ally.

Bush needs to get tough will all these bad actors. China should pay a price for its support of North Korea and Iran. Russia should pay a price for the same and more. That's the only way to influence North Korea and Iran and stop Russia's attempts to recreate the iron curtain.

Confronting those two nations will limit their power and subsequently weaken Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, and the Mahdi army.

We should also adopt a new policy in Iraq - kill all the bad guys. Kill all the bad guys whether they are on the street or in the government. If we take the lead, the Iraqi government will follow and purge itself of the militias.