This review of Zbigniew Brzezinski's, The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership, looks to be a good article.
I do not read the New York Review of Books much these days. I used to. From where I sit in Australia I sense that something has happened to US liberal culture, though I'm not sure what it is. It appears to have gone defensive. The liberal culture is concerned to repel the radical foreign culture of Europe and has turned inward.
Here is a different suggestion.
The above review starts well enough. It acknowledges the reality that the US foreign policy is currently conducted in tems of a background of anxiety about the growing hostility of the Islamic states toward the US. This is expressed in terms of Samuel Huntington's 'war between civilizations'; with Islamic militants taken as representative of much of Islam and the United States as champion of the West. Australia follows dutifully behind.
The Bush reponse means that we have TERROR --a metaphysical entity--- that disconnects fundamnetal Islam from its history and regional roots.
Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at March 27, 2004 11:52 PM | TrackBack