In this second part of a really bad story about the ongoing quacking by a lame duck president that might prove to be a lesson on how not to be a president or how not to do business as a super power nation when you’re a lame duck, but I digress. It’s been less than a week since the lame duck president quacked about negotiating with terrorists and used the word appeasement to describe such an atrocity as actually speaking to someone. It is only possible to create peace by bombing and killing I guess. But since Bush’s diatribe about the uselessness of negotiations a bright light has been put on America’s power and influence or waning power and influence. Almost in lock step a lineup of American allies announced not letting a day go by after Bush’s denouncement of negotiating with terrorists, that they are doing just that, negotiating with people Bush calls terrorists, the most amazing confession coming from Israel where Bush made his recent remarks, it seems they are actually negotiating with Syria and have been for months with Turkey being the arbitrator. Another ally on the war on terror, Pakistan signed a treaty with the Taliban to stop their terrorist attacks in Pakistan but they can go ahead and attack anybody they want in Afghanistan; and finally the French are in contact with Hamas that will lead to negotiations on the Middle East issue. What next the British sign a peace treaty with Al Queda? This is the current state of affairs and actually a pretty good way for these other governments to do business; it can’t be bad to do the opposite of whatever the Bush administration says or does. The Bush administration is so frustrated with it’s lack of influence now days it’s now wagging fingers at news organizations including NBC and the Israel news media for making Bush sound like a terrorist, and before that labeling Jimmy Carter a traitor for talking to Syria and Hamas. Oh, for the good old days when they could say anything, lie about weapons of mass destruction, Al Queda connections and create a war that was supposed to last a couple of days after “shock and awe”. But now here we are suffering our own shock and awe five years later, the economy going bust and the rest of the world sitting back smirking, and why shouldn’t they, after the horrible way the Bush administration has acted in the last seven years. So let Bush talk and watch the world ignore him or better yet do the opposite of what he says…