Bridges, Bombs, or Bluster?

Framing choices is central to national security policy. Since World War II, no nation has played a more influential role in defining such alternatives than the United States. Today, however, U.S. President George W. Bush's administration purports to be redefining the fundamental choice every na...

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Main Author: Albright, Madeleine K.
Format: Book
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520 # # |a Framing choices is central to national security policy. Since World War II, no nation has played a more influential role in defining such alternatives than the United States. Today, however, U.S. President George W. Bush's administration purports to be redefining the fundamental choice every nation, in every region must make. The U.S.'s radical adversaries eager to promote themselves as the United States' chief nemeses-are echoing the attempt. Those caught in the middle, however, suggest the choices before them may not be quite so simple. For Bush, September 11, 2001,came as a revelation, leading him to the strartleddconslusion that the globe had changed in ways gravely hazardous to the security indeed, the very survival of the United Staes. This conclusion soon led Bush to a fateful decision: to depart, in fundamental ways, from the approach that has characterized U.S.foreign policy for more than half a century. Soon, reliance on alliance had been replaced by redemption through preemption; the shock of force trumped the hard work of diplomacy, and long-time relationships were redefined. The United States' cause would therefore be heard more dearly and listened to more closely if the administration substituted bridges for bluster and spoke more often of choices relevant to the day-to-day lives of more or the world's people. 
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