Word: wilsonian
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Zinn—whose 1980 book A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present has sold millions of copies—assailed President Bush’s use of Wilsonian idealism to support the occupation...
...passionate commitment to a superfundamentalist strain of Islam, one that visits no sanction against indiscriminate violence in its name. To hope to combat the threat from such violence, it is not enough to toughen up the defense of the American homeland. What is needed, rather, is a Wilsonian project to assist the development of peace, democracy and prosperity in the Middle East. And that is what Bush has promised...
...military machine does not come cheap. The war in Afghanistan has so far cost an estimated $15 billion, and respectable guesses at the cost of a campaign in Iraq range from $100 billion to $200 billion. But the military's precise role in support of the President's wider Wilsonian objectives remains unclear. So far, the Administration seems wedded to the distinctive theory of nation building adopted by the George H.W. Bush and Clinton Administrations in Somalia (disastrously) and in Bosnia and Kosovo (rather more successfully): use American military power, preferably from the air, to effect "regime change...
...French ambassador to the U.S., "are having to get used to the idea that they're no longer the center of the world." But one common European criticism of the Bush Administration has weight. That is the claim that the U.S has not thought through how to implement its Wilsonian agenda--how to weave political, diplomatic and military power into a sustained effort to achieve lasting change in the arc of crisis. Europeans look at an American military force spread all over the globe in support of an uncertain political goal, and they know exactly what it is they...
...That war is not yet won. But if there is one thing that history tells us, it is that victors need to start planning how to win a peace long before the shooting stops. There is still time for the Bush Administration to close the gap between its Wilsonian rhetoric on democracy and liberty and the reality of a policy that, so far, seems dependent on nothing but imperial garrisons. Ill health and the collapse of domestic political support meant that Wilson never got the chance to see if his world-changing ideas could be put into practice. Bush...