Last week offered Democrats a myriad of opportunities to call into question fundamental assumptions that the Bush team have used to buttress their claims about the outcomes that will be produced from pursuing regional transformation through unilateral military action. However, surprisingly few of them have taken the opportunity to further distance themselves from the policies of the president. In testimony before the Senate Armed Service Committee this week it is notable that the the leadership of the Pentagon faced its toughest questioning from a conservative Republican (Sen. Graham of South Carolina). And in arguably the biggest foreign policy vote of the week only three senators (Dayton, Durbin and Harkin) voted against the president's controversial choice to become out new ambassador to Iraq, John Negroponte. At a time when it appears the American populace is cooling in its support for American operations in Iraq, and in the face of considerable criticism from many foreign policy experts, it is interesting that Negroponte's nomination was approved overwhelmingly.
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