Son of the New World Order

摘要

For a family whose patriarch once spokernof it dismissively, the Bushes have developed a thing for vision. In September 1990, a few weeks after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, President George H.W. Bush told Congress that "out of these troubled times, our objective—a new world order—can emerge." Forrnthe next year or so, he trotted out that phrase times without number. The new world order, he said at one point, implied "new ways of working with other nations... peaceful settlement of disputes, solidarity against aggression ... and just treatment of all peoples."