Safe at home: at the dawn of the Cold War, America's leaders created new institutions that made us safer. Fast forward to the present. Why isn't the Bush administration following their example?(Special report: the foreign policy crisis)
American Prospect, The, November, 2003 by Halperin, Morton
President Bush got one thing right: The greatest threat to American security is a rogue state providing a terrorist group with a weapon of mass destruction and the means to deliver it in the United States. Unfortunately, almost everything he has done since September 11 has made this problem worse rather than better. We need new policies, new approaches and new institutions to reduce this risk.
The Bush administration took positive steps immediately following 9-11 that should be built upon. It went to the United Nations Security Council, worked collaboratively with the other ...
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