A Losing Latin Policy
10th Mar 2006, 11:26 GMT
In the past year Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has quietly corrected several of the Bush administration's most self-defeating first-term foreign policies -- such as its insistence on obstructing European diplomacy on the Iranian nuclear program rather than focusing pressure on the Iranians themselves. But a couple of shoot-yourself-in-the-foot practices linger from the days when a high-riding Bush team felt it could afford to champion unilateralism and narrow U.S. interests even if it meant damaging relations with important allies.