CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: BUILDING A NEW WORLD ORDER
... The blazing World Trade Center towers quickly crumbled, burying the office workers and firefighters still inside the buildings as onlookers ran for cover. The skeletal ruins and mountains of debris became the burial site for thousands. One onlooker echoed this sense of disbelief: “This is America. ...
... The blazing World Trade Center towers quickly crumbled, burying the office workers and firefighters still inside the buildings as onlookers ran for cover. The skeletal ruins and mountains of debris became the burial site for thousands. One onlooker echoed this sense of disbelief: “This is America. ...
The impact of the Iraq War on US global power and prestige has
... at present no real opposition in the United States to the basic direction of US foreign and security policy. The Democrats are bitterly, and rightly, critical of the monstrous incompetence displayed by the Bush administration. But they do not themselves have an alternative strategy or philosophy to ...
... at present no real opposition in the United States to the basic direction of US foreign and security policy. The Democrats are bitterly, and rightly, critical of the monstrous incompetence displayed by the Bush administration. But they do not themselves have an alternative strategy or philosophy to ...
Neoconservatism
Neoconservatism (commonly shortened to neocon) is a political movement born in the United States during the 1960s. Many of its adherents became politically famous during the Republican presidential administrations of the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. Neoconservatives peaked in influence during the administrations of George W. Bush, George H W Bush and Tony Blair, when they played a major role in promoting and planning the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Prominent neoconservatives in the Bush administration included Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, John Bolton, Elliott Abrams, Richard Perle, and Paul Bremer.The term ""neoconservative"" refers to those who made the ideological journey from the anti-Stalinist left to the camp of American conservatism. Neoconservatives frequently advocate the promotion of democracy and promotion of American national interest in international affairs, including by means of military force, and are known for espousing disdain for communism and for political radicalism. Many early neoconservative thinkers were Zionist and published articles in Commentary, published by the American Jewish Committee. They spoke out against the New Left, and in that way helped define the movement. C. Bradley Thompson, a professor at Clemson University, claims that most influential neoconservatives refer explicitly to the theoretical ideas in the philosophy of Leo Strauss (1899–1973),though in doing so they may draw upon meaning that Strauss himself did not endorse.