27.10.2005, 21:39
Nicht mehr ganz neu, aber trotzdem lesenswert.
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Zitat:Bush's Foreign-Policy Strategy: Is the Revolution Over?
The Mercury News, October 14, 2005
Ivo H. Daalder, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies
James M. Lindsay, Vice President and Director of Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Throughout his first term in office, George W. Bush broke with traditional American foreign-policy practices and challenged the norms of international relations. He walked away from treaties his predecessors had signed. He questioned the utility of the United Nations and other international institutions. And he was quick to resort to military force, going so far as launching a preventive war against Iraq.
Foreign policy in Bush's second term looks kinder and gentler. The president has visited Europe four times this year in a bid "to remind people that the world is better off, America is better off, Europe is better off, when we work together." Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice assured the Senate during her confirmation hearings that "the time for diplomacy is now." ...