01-21-07, 12:49 PM
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Stowaway
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Originally Posted by bradclark1
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Originally Posted by The Avon Lady
But I was referring to your understanding of the reference specifically to Bush in the WP review.
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Today, the conventional view is that George W. Bush took the United States on a radical departure when he declared a policy to transform the Middle East and that, as soon as he leaves office, U.S. policy will return to an alleged tradition of realism, rooted in the hard-headed pursuit of tangible national interests. This is both bad history and bad prophecy, as Oren shows in Power, Faith, and Fantasy, a series of fascinating and beautifully written stories about individual Americans over the past four centuries and their contact with Middle Eastern cultures
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Now I haven't read the book and I'm just going on this review. This paragraph speaks of the region. Not Iran, not Iraq but the middle east.
The real question is is this believable?
It started with 9/11 and Afghanistan now did it leapfrog to a policy to transform the Middle East? The underlined above says its a conventional view. My question to Waste Gate was does he believe that. Does anyone believe that. If Iraq had of gone hunky dory what was the policy/plan after? |
“War is the continuation of policy by other means."
- Karl von Clausewitz
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