Hurt by election losses back home, President Bush tried to exert his authority on the world stage Thursday by warning a nuclear-armed North Korea against peddling its weapons and vowing the United States would not retreat into isolationism. The president then headed for Vietnam and Hanoi, the wartime capital of the once-divided country, in a visit that promised to stir inevitable comparisons between the unpopular war raging in Iraq and the divisive war fought and lost in Vietnam more than three decades ago.
| Ummm... Is this news or an opinion piece? We certainly know what the writer's opinion is, though the only piece of news we've got so far is that Bush went to Hanoi, which we knew yesterday... |
Bush's words on North Korea and isolationism came on the eve of his trip to Hanoi to attend a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders and to hold individual meetings with a handful of them all curious about whether election setbacks had unsettled him. Striking moments for Bush in Hanoi will include a visit Friday to Communist Party headquarters for talks with the party's general secretary.
| What's "striking" about that? He goes to a country, he talks to the people in charge. It's Vietnam. Guess who's in charge? |
Bush directly challenged newly empowered Democrats in the U.S. who are demanding a fresh course in Iraq and are fearful that free-trade agreements could cost American jobs. "We hear voices calling for us to retreat from the world and close our doors to these opportunities," the president said in a speech at the National University of Singapore. "These are the old temptations of isolationism and protectionism, and America must reject them."
| Do they have automated writing programs that turn out crap pieces like this? I could probably write a better one for them. |
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