America's New World Disorder

摘要

Since September 11th, the world has speeded up. The once glacial pace of international affairs―symbolized by the never-ending U.S.-Soviet arms negotiations―has been replaced by constant turmoil. Consider recent events: the U.N. headquarters and then the main Shiite mosque in Iraq are bombed; Hamas and Israel declare all-out war; the Palestinian prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, resigns; Washington reverses course on Iraq and goes to the United Nations. And that's just in the past three weeks. Terror attacks, diplomatic crises and armed conflict are becoming normal in international relations. Welcome to the new international disorder. When historians look back they will point to certain dominant realities―most obviously terrorism and radical Islam―that have created this post-9/11 world.