Bridges, Bombs, or Bluster?
2003; Council on Foreign Relations; Volume: 82; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/20033679
ISSN2327-7793
Autores Tópico(s)Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
ResumoFEW READERS will fail to identify the first quotation cited above: it was uttered by President George W. Bush, speaking soon after the September l, 2001, terrorist attacks. Few readers, similarly, will be sur prised to learn that the second quote came from a Sunni Muslim cleric in Baghdad, Imam Mouaid al-Ubaidi. The third quote, however, may be a bit harder to identify: it was spoken by French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin, describing the different world views now held by Washington and Paris. And it should remind us that not everyone divides the world along the same lines as the United States. 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, the Bush admin istration purports to be redefining the fundamental choice nation, in every region must make. America's radical adversaries-eager to
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