Volume 50, Number 16 · October 23, 2003
Eyeless in Iraq
By Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
America Unbound: The Bush Revolutionin Foreign Policy
by Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay
Brookings Institution Press,227 pp., $22.95
The George W. Bush Presidency: An Early Assessment
edited by Fred I. Greenstein
Johns Hopkins University Press, 314 pp., $55.00; $19.95 (To be published in November.)
President George W. Bush has made a fatal change in the foreign policy of the United States. He has repudiated the strategy that won the cold war—the combination of containment and deterrence carried out through such multilateral agencies as the UN, NATO, and the Organization of American States. The Bush Doctrine reverses all that. The essence of our new strategy is military: to strike a potential enemy, unilaterally if necessary, before he has a chance to strike us.
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