We cannot remain in Germany for 400 years.” (1999) Should the United States start pulling out of Europe? “The steady expansion of global commitments is a prescription for endless wars and eventual disaster.” (October 2003) What seems to be the core problem? “It is a sobering thought that no Arab or Islamic revolution that fought hard to expel a Western power has been defeated in 60 years.”
(1999) Why do you think the prospects are bleak for success in Iraq? “All that heroic chatter about global hegemony, a crusade for democracy and ‘On to Baghdad” has faded away.” (1999) Has the enthusiasm for the Iraq mission lessened?
“No malevolent empire threatens us today - and despite efforts to create a new Hitler in Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic, they both fall short of the mark.” (1999) But surely there were threats at the end of the 1990s that required immediate U.S. Rather than yield gracefully as Europe and Asia asserted their new independence, we behaved like a possessive parent.” “If America has had one great failing in the 1990s, it has been not to grasp that our hegemony was surely transient. (1999) When did things start going wrong? “America has taken on the historic roles of the German empire in keeping Russia out of Europe, of the Austrian empire in policing the Balkans, of the British empire in patrolling the oceans and sea lanes and protecting the Persian Gulf, of the Ottoman empire in keeping peace in the Holy Land, of the Japanese empire in defending Korea and containing China - and of the Spanish empire in Latin America.” (March 2003) Is the United States stretching too thin? “A cabal of polemicists and public officials seek to ensnare our country in a series of wars that are not in America’s interests.” Prominent among these critics is Pat Buchanan - the former presidential candidate whose views we present in this Read My Lips feature.
Bush is not acting in America’s best interest - and that the United States has taken on far more global obligations than it can handle. Some of the most consistent criticism of President Bush’s foreign policy has come from U.S.
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