DOES THE BUSH FOREIGN POLICY REVOLUTION HAVE A FUTURE?: In Search of Monsters

Daalder, Ivo H., Lindsay, James M., The World Today

For the past three years, and especially since the September 11 2001 attacks, a common critique of American foreign policy under President George Bush has run as follows. The administration's foreign policy is all brawn and no brain; military force has replaced diplomacy and negotiations as Washington's main foreign policy instrument The president is a foreign policy lightweight who knows little about the world. Therefore, foreign policy is run by Bush's advisers, especially Vice-President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. For all intents and purposes, Bush has been the puppet of darker forces in his administration, above all the neo-conservatives, who in Senator Joe …

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Publication information: Article title: DOES THE BUSH FOREIGN POLICY REVOLUTION HAVE A FUTURE?: In Search of Monsters. Contributors: Daalder, Ivo H. - Author, Lindsay, James M. - Author. Magazine title: The World Today. Volume: 60. Issue: 1 Publication date: January 2004. Page number: 7. © Royal Institute of International Affairs Mar 2009. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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