Bush, Rice and The 9-11 Shift

摘要

Perhaps the most intriguing question about george W. Bush's foreign policy is, how did we get from candidate Bush to President Bush? During the campaign Governor Bush said little about foreign affairs but consistently struck one central theme: America is overcommitted around the world, he said, pushes its weight around too much, and tells other countries how to run their affairs too often. We need to scale back, be humble and get out of the nation-building business. How did we get from there to here, a situation in which President Bush embraces America's role as world hegemon, issues diktats to the world, increases foreign aid and argues for the spread of freedom and democracy everywhere in the world, especially in the lands of Islam?