A diplomatic coup for Bush? Certainly, no matter why this happened, it's huge news. And certainly, this makes Bush's denunciation of Chen's referendum make a lot more sense. In which case, the administration has a string of remarkable successes to point at, when the deserving criticisism of the foreign policy of the administration. While I still think that the diplomacy of this country leading up to the war in Iraq was a clusterfuck of unbelivable proportions, I need to give credit where credit is due. And between this, Libya, and Iran (I know, I know it was the Europeans, but we obviously played a huge role), the Adminsitration has several important successes it can tout.