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To: bentway who wrote (253965)	10/8/2005 6:26:38 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 1570515

BOOK REVIEW Driving American foreign policy The Endgame of Globalization by Neil Smith Reviewed by Dmitry Shlapentokh The beginning of the Iraq war led to unusual frankness in describing the goals and methods of American foreign policy. It was stated that Americans might well disregard international law and preach Hobbesian "realpolitik", in which right is defined by strength. Some of the articles published just before or during the war could well have been published in Nazi propaganda publications. The difference is that these Iraq war articles stated that, while force should be applied in foreign policy, democracy should be preserved at home. There was also unbounded optimism that, facing American military might, the enemy's resistance would soon crumble. But the war is going badly and this has started to change, as an increasing number of publications provide a variety of explanations for why things went wrong. Jimmy Carter's former national security advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, representing the Democrats, blasted President Bush for an imperialistic drive - Caesarism - and for abandoning the principles that made the US great. He claimed that this prostitution of "Lady Liberty" made Bush and company reckless and got America into trouble. [...] atimes.com