The folks over at the Wall Street Journal aren't happy with the Bush administration.

This isn't yet the gang that couldn't shoot straight, but without a course correction it may get there. The Administration that once dominated events now seems hostage to them. If we had to pick a date when this slippage began, we'd choose March 5. That was the day Mr. Bush imposed steel tariffs for domestic political reasons. The decision irritated most of the world, but that is not always bad. What made that decision so damaging was that it repudiated a core principle of Mr. Bush's foreign policy: free trade.

The policy mattered less than the abandonment of principle. It signaled to the world that Mr. Bush was not the President he had seemed after September 11; his moral and strategic clarity could be compromised for a price.

It's interesting that they tie their disillusionment to a decision made by the president's chief political operative. Should we be on the lookout for a Who Is Karl Rove? piece in the not-too-distant future?
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