Hoorah for Texas, Sort Of

Why does the media keep referring to former President George W. Bush’s foreign policy as “Cowboy Diplomacy”? What did cowboys ever do to deserve such a derogatory association? I can only imagine that most cowboys are hard-working, decent people who respect the law and secretly admire at least the cinematography in Brokeback Mountain, not crazed egomaniacs with messiah complexes. I do feel sort of bad for the cows, but not bad enough to stay out of McDonald’s.