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Georgia-Russia conflict a blow to Bush foreign policy

The president's reliance on diplomacy based on personal relations
with leaders such as Putin and his push to establish democracies from
the top down has proved not so viable.

By Julian E. Barnes

Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

August 18, 2008

WASHINGTON =E2=80=94 In the last week, two major pillars of President Bush'=
s
approach to foreign policy have crumbled, jeopardizing eight years of
work and sending the administration scrambling for new strategies in
the waning months of its term.