At War with Ourselves: Why America Is Squandering Its Chance to Build a Better WorldOxford University Press, 5 июн. 2003 г. - Всего страниц: 304 As correspondent for Newsweek, Michael Hirsh has traveled to every continent, reporting on American foreign policy. Now he draws on his experience to offer an original explanation of America's role in the world and the problems facing the nation today and in the future. Using colorful vignettes and up-close reporting from his coverage of the first two post-Cold War presidents, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, Hirsh argues that America has a new role never before played by any nation: it is the world's Uberpower, overseeing the global system from the air, land, sea and, increasingly, from space as well. And that means America has a unique opportunity do what no great power in history has ever done--to perpetuate indefinitely the global system it has built, to create an international community with American power at its center that is so secure it may never be challenged. Yet Americans are squandering this chance by failing to realize what is at stake. At the same time that America as a nation possesses powers it barely comprehends, Americans as individuals have vulnerabilities they never before imagined. They desperately need the international community on their side. In an era when democracy and free markets have become the prevailing ideology, Hirsh argues, one of America's biggest problems will be "ideological blowback"--facing up to the flaws and contradictions of its own ideals. Hence, for example, the biggest threat to political stability is not totalitarianism, but the tricky task of instituting democracy in the Arab world without giving Islamic fundamentalists the reigns of power. The only way for Washington to avoid accusations of hypocrisy is to allow the global institutions it has built, like the U.N., to do the hard work of promoting U.S. values. |
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... Trade Center and the Pentagon . Hundreds of thousands of Germans had gathered at the Brandenburg Gate , the site of JFK's " Ich bin ein Berliner " speech , to say that they now stood with America . France's Le Monde newspaper , normally ...
... Trade Center and the Pentagon . Hundreds of thousands of Germans had gathered at the Brandenburg Gate , the site of JFK's " Ich bin ein Berliner " speech , to say that they now stood with America . France's Le Monde newspaper , normally ...
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... Trade Center , of cherished memory , once was . And yet few of us have ever really understood this stranger in our midst . For many Americans , the decaying , giant , green - tinted box on the bank of the East River might as well be a ...
... Trade Center , of cherished memory , once was . And yet few of us have ever really understood this stranger in our midst . For many Americans , the decaying , giant , green - tinted box on the bank of the East River might as well be a ...
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... trading rules , of international law , of norms for economic and political behavior . As we will see in the chapters ahead , it is overwhelm- ingly in our national interest to stay engaged in the global system shaped by these ideas and ...
... trading rules , of international law , of norms for economic and political behavior . As we will see in the chapters ahead , it is overwhelm- ingly in our national interest to stay engaged in the global system shaped by these ideas and ...
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... Trade Organization ( WTO ) , among others — have been molded by centuries of Western civilization , tempered and informed by past wars and past fail- ures . After centuries in which world affairs have been governed by ever- shifting ...
... Trade Organization ( WTO ) , among others — have been molded by centuries of Western civilization , tempered and informed by past wars and past fail- ures . After centuries in which world affairs have been governed by ever- shifting ...
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... trading system , which the United States virtu- ally reinvented after World War II ( with some help from John Maynard Keynes and others ) , would almost certainly have broken down amid all these renewed rivalries , killing globalization ...
... trading system , which the United States virtu- ally reinvented after World War II ( with some help from John Maynard Keynes and others ) , would almost certainly have broken down amid all these renewed rivalries , killing globalization ...
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Стр. 80 - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts — for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
Стр. 74 - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?
Стр. 77 - She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom.
Стр. 26 - You may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, pulverize it and wipe it clean of life — but if you desire to defend it, protect it, and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman legions did, by putting your young men into the mud.
Стр. 243 - May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government.
Стр. 264 - Atlantic but to the whole world ; disarmament of aggressors, self-determination of nations and peoples, and the four freedoms — freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
Стр. 237 - ... power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin.
Стр. 2 - When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains, Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Стр. 38 - Many of my generation, the career captains, majors, and lieutenant colonels seasoned in that war, vowed that when our turn came to call the shots, we would not quietly acquiesce in half-hearted warfare for half-baked reasons...
Стр. viii - Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America, my fellow citizens — I do not say it in disparagement of any other great people — America is the only idealistic Nation in the world.