...Congress within weeks of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush said these (in)famous words: "Every nation, in every region, now has a decision...make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."39 Going well past the counsel of George Kennan, the policy of containment became the vehicle...

...Arizona reported that suspected terrorists were training as pilots in the United States. a stark warning: Every nation, in every region, now has a decision...make: either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. The rest of the world now had a decision to make, fe 69 Chapter 7 The Hunt for bin Laden...

...sentiment has been inflated to the category of the "Bush Doctrine". The "Bush Doctrine" is very simple: "Every nation in every region now has a decision to...make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists" (Bush, 2001). 6 The message is unmistakeably clear; there is no neutrality in this era....

...policy; it had no interest in the approval or consultation of other nations. As Bush bluntly put it, "Every nation, in every region, now has a decision...make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." Speaking in the National Cathedral in Washington a few days after the September 11 attack,...

...of his with-us-or-against-us policy. which was formulated at the very outset of the war on terror: Every nation. in every region. now has a decision...make. Either you are with us. or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward. any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be...

...as heroes and loved ones. This requires the clarity of American doctrine as newly defined by Bush: "Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists." This means building a coalition of nations against bin Laden and his Taliban cronies....

...speech to the special Joint Session of Congress to issue his challenge to governments around the world: "Every nation, in every region, now has a decision...make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." The stark choice put before old enemies and allies alike, including Canada, made it clear...

...lead a 'war on terrorism.' The world, he insisted, was rigidly polarized between good and evil. Thus, 'Every nation in every region now has a decision to make: Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists."* A week earlier, Secretary of State Colin Powell had previewed the President's stark 'good...

...on September 20, 2001, Bush peremptorily told a joint session of Congress that "every nation . . . now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."18 Later on, the initial consensus sympathetic to the defensive war against an outlaw Afghanistan...

...www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/ 20010920-8.html. As quoted in Chapter 10, Bush said that "we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. . . . From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded...