Fifty years ago, the United States founded the United Nations,
promoted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, used economic
aid as a tool for creating stability, and viewed collective
agreements and cooperation as the principal methods of sharing the
costs and the risks of security. Today, under the leadership of
George W. Bush, the main tool of foreign policy is military force,
not diplomacy. America is going it alone, and paying the price,
both abroad and at home, for the reckless endangerment of both
national and international security.
In this comprehensive critique of the Bush administration's
handling of international relations, Craig R. Eisendrath and Melvin
A. Goodman, both senior fellows at the Center for International
Policy, demonstrate the folly and the dangers of abandoning
diplomacy and relying on military force as the chief means of
conducting U.S. foreign policy. The authors argue that a policy of
bullying will sow seeds of resentment and mistrust among our
potential allies and encourage nations hostile to our interests to
seek nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction as a last-resort
method of protecting themselves against a belligerent world power.
Eisendrath and Goodman foresee the international community becoming
dangerously unstable, not more secure, under a Pax Americana
maintained by military might.
On the domestic front, the authors warn that a policy emphasizing
the power of the executive branch at the expense of Congress, and
suspending long-standing civil rights under the pretext of national
security, threatens the Constitution. Finally, the decline of
government services for education, health, and the elderly, and the
economic effect of huge military expenditures financed by deficit
spending are already causing distress in large parts of our
society.
This trenchant critique by two experienced foreign policy analysts
will serve as a wake-up call to the dangerous militarism at the
heart of the Bush agenda.
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