US Foreign Policy: 7 Book Reviews
The New York Times carries this piece reviewing a number of foreign policy critiques. Some of the books are avowedly antiBush others more subtly so. Closing the opening essay which sets a context for all the books is this paragraph.
Not unexpectedly, the rise of so contentious a new order, and the man who so unexpectedly launched it, have hatched a considerable library of condemnation, all the more as his re-election campaign gets under way. Of the books reviewed here, two -- America Unbound'' and ''Crisis on the Korean Peninsula'' -- can be classified as reasonably evenhanded, though the first is broadly critical of the Bush approach and the second implicitly so. The others leave no doubt of what they think, ranging from George Soros's declared hope that his book will contribute to sweeping Bush out of office to Robert Jay Lifton's image of a ''malignant synergy'' between the United States and Al Qaeda ''when, in their mutual zealotry, Islamist and American leaders seem to act in concert.'' From across the Atlantic, Emmanuel Todd contributes the wistful notion that the United States, the true empire and axis of evil in his view, is already near collapse. These are only a portion of a swelling anti-Bush literature, for now only partly offset by equally ardent pro-Bush books.
America Unbound and The Bubble of American Supremacy seem to be the ones that call for my attention.
Posted by Donald Douglas at January 24, 2004 10:55 AMComments
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