Bush Whistles Dixie.(George W. Bush United States)
Newsweek International, December, 2002 by Lind, Michael
When it comes to foreign policy, George W. Bush has broken radically with the bipartisan tradition of liberal internationalism, shared by both his father and Bill Clinton. Even before 9-11, he was repudiating treaties, ignoring the United Nations and sidelining NATO allies. The administration has announced a grandiose global strategy of unilateral American domination, even as it has abandoned its time-honored role of honest broker in the Middle East and embraced, almost completely, Ariel Sharon's war of occupation against millions of Palestinians.
How to explain this dramatic break with tradition? Where does the Bush administration's profoundly conservative America-firstism come from? For a clue, look to the same region that's causing trouble for the...
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