Three words: Bush has failed.

Let's boil it down and stop mincing around the inescapable. George W. Bush foreign "policy" is an abject and dangerous failure.
Iraq had a day that did not evoke Vietnam so much as Rwanda. This chaos is directly attributable to the brain dead policy of Bush's neo-cons. Iraq is George W Bush's failure.

North Korea is now far more dangerous than it was when Clinton left office in 2001. And we, depending on China to finance our deficit - also created since 2001 - can do little, if anything, about it. We are locked into a dance of death with China. They must buy dollars. Or we are cooked. They will not allow North Korea to fail. We cannot allow them to succeed. China holds the cards, though. This is Bush's failure. No one else's. It is George W Bush's. Period.

Iran is now an unchecked regional power because Bush and his neo-con idiots took out the country that checked their power. Because of the stupidity of Bush's Iraq policy we can either A. No nothing about Iran's regional ascendancy. Or B. Attack and open up a regional conflict and explode oil prices, which will bring on economic calamity. These are the choices that George W Bush's foolish policy created.

And Afghanistan has erupted again.

Let us pull no punches: NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF GORE HAD BECOME PRESIDENT. NONE OF IT. The power of the United States of America has diminished markedly in 6 years. Why? Because of Bush/Cheney. Period.