American policy might as well have been made in Likud’s headquarters. Even at the end, when the United Nations Security Council voted on Gaza, Bush was happy to humiliate Condoleezza Rice at Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s bidding.
这些专家的共识之一就是布什总统把事情搞糟了。美国的政策好像是在利库德总部里制定的一样。即使在最后，当联合国安理会对加沙问题投票的时候，布什还是乐意给莱斯难堪来讨好以色列总理奥尔穆特。