Saletean on the “Bush Doctrine”
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Saletean cuts through some of the hand waving and mumbo jumbo about Bush’s “new” doctrine. This is the most important point:
The United States under Bush isn’t much different. Our new moral compromise is that we’re putting stability and order before reform. “Today, the world’s great powers find ourselves on the same side-united by common dangers of terrorist violence and chaos,” says the manifesto. “America is now threatened less by conquering states than we are by failing ones.” Specifically, “the United States and Russia are no longer strategic adversaries,” and we’re cooperating with China “where our interests overlap, including the current war on terrorism.”
So, raise your hand if you think the US is safer backing dicators than working toward reform.
