Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There's a bigger difference between the first and second Bush administrations than there is between Bush and Obama. That's really true.
Iraq... has also had contacts with al-Qaida. Their ties may be limited by divergent ideologies, but the two sides' mutual antipathy toward the United States and the Saudi royal family suggests that tactical cooperation between them is possible.
I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration.
If the administration wants cooperation, it will have to begin to move in our direction.
When your friend causes you trouble, a president gets rid of those friends.
The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.
The United States has to have the capability to deal with more than one enemy at one time and be able to confront them and win.
If George W. Bush is given a second term, and retains a Republican Congress and a compliant federal judiciary, he and his allies are likely to embark on a campaign of political retribution the likes of which we haven't seen since Richard Nixon.
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.