Graham Allison, who like many sane people was appalled by Bush's foreign policy for several years, has an oped praising the administration's change of tone on Iran, which follows a more accommodating (and more successful) approach to North Korea. It's not enough to erase the Iraq War, and we're only in the opening stages, but the dissolution of both countries' nuclear arsenals could wind up being one of Bush's most important accomplishments (although it'll inevitably be the accomplishment of his successor, too).
Bush has followed a somewhat Reagan-esque foreign policy path, steadily softening from Crazy Hard Line to Much Less Crazy and More Productive. If I were looking for a stupid sports metaphor to explain this (and I am!), I'd say it reminds me of a wild fastballer who scares everyone with 103 mph heaters behind the head, but is totally ineffective because he walks everybody. When he finds his control, the other team is still scared of him, and only then does he actually start punching guys out.
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