The limits of the Bush Doctrine seem more and more evident when one actually pays attention to the paucity of the adminstration's international economic policies.  Last week it was " he of the perpetual 'deer in the headlights' expression" Treasury Secretary John Snow begging the Chinese to revalue the renminbi and today it is the President begging Bush family friend Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to pump a little more oil before the summer!  Although the Bush administration has gotten a lot of mileage out of wishful think and redefining the terms of engagement, begging others to fall in line behind our fiscal trainwreck is ultimately not a viable international economic policy nor should we fool ourselves into believing that because we are the world's largest economy that everyone else is eventually going to come around and bail us out. 

Who knew that being the world's only remaining Super Power meant not only not having to say you're sorry all the time but that you'd also be reduced to seeking hand-outs like a bum!