Bleeding Heart Conservatism?

I'm constantly amazed by the way in which 9/11 has had such a disorienting effect upon the foreign policies of "liberalism" and "conservatism." We have our most conservative President since Reagan constantly being referred to by supporters and detractors alike as both Wilsonian and Trumanesque. His best friend across the Atlantic is Tony Blair, a domestic "Clintonian", who is criticized by opponents for being "Bush's poodle." The other day I saw a car with a smattering of "progressive" bumper stickers, including one that said "F$%# Iraq. Fix America." And finally today, President Bush, while in Eastern Europe, apologized for U.S. complicity in past atrocities. (Such "revisionist" talk is usually left to the other side of the political spectrum.) He said:

"V-E Day marked the end of fascism, but it did not end oppression. The agreement at Yalta followed in the unjust tradition of Munich and the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Once again, when powerful governments negotiated, the freedom of small nations was somehow expendable. Yet this attempt to sacrifice freedom for the sake of stability left a continent divided and unstable. The captivity of millions in Central and Eastern Europe will be remembered as one of the greatest wrongs of history.

Of course, a cynic would say that Bush was making this apology to undercut FDR, a democrat. In my view he is simply proving his foreign policy to be a cohseive and highly principled doctrine. There's room to disagree about whether it will work out in the long run - it could prove either incredbly triumphant or tragically naive. But whatever you say about Bush, he's no novice as a foreign policy-maker and articulator of American principles. And he's certainly not your typical conservative.