How a Superpower Lost its Stature
By Michael Lind
Financial Times, June 1, 2004
The image of America the Liberator has been replaced by the image of America the occupier and America the torturer
The debacle in Iraq has discredited the American neoconservative dream of a benevolent CS empire, freed from the petty restraints of multilateral diplomacy and international law. But the neoconservative vision is not the only dream that has died in the rubble of Falluja and torture cells of Abu Ghraib prison. What until recently was the alternative endorsed by many Democrats and some centrist Republicans US world leadership exercised through multilateral security institutions can also now be included in the collateral damage done by George W. Bush s war In Iraq...
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Financial Times, June 1, 2004
The image of America the Liberator has been replaced by the image of America the occupier and America the torturer
The debacle in Iraq has discredited the American neoconservative dream of a benevolent CS empire, freed from the petty restraints of multilateral diplomacy and international law. But the neoconservative vision is not the only dream that has died in the rubble of Falluja and torture cells of Abu Ghraib prison. What until recently was the alternative endorsed by many Democrats and some centrist Republicans US world leadership exercised through multilateral security institutions can also now be included in the collateral damage done by George W. Bush s war In Iraq...
http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news1/lindft.htm
Informant: kevcross5
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