The Middle East: thinking big: president Bush's several policies don't connect. Here's a better way to bring greater security, democracy, and development to the region.
American Prospect, The, March, 2005 by Leverett, Flynt
ONE CERTAINLY CANNOT FAULT GEORGE W. BUSH for lacking what his father famously called "the vision thing." Immediately after the September 11 attacks, the president announced a war on all terrorists "with global reach," and warned state sponsors of terrorism "to stand with us or with the terrorists." Two months after the attacks, Bush endorsed a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict more explicitly than any of his predecessors.
He developed a grand vision for political and economic liberalization in the Middle East, denouncing the ...
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