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...energy was focused on hunting down bin Laden, rolling up al-Qaeda around the world, upgrading security measures at home and trying to put Afghanistan on a road to stability. Now that country's President can scarcely leave home without risking being shot, while the occupation of an Arab country by a U.S. army, however well meaning, has further inflamed many Muslims and alienated U.S. allies. "9/11 taught us the costs of inaction," observes Democratic Senator Evan Bayh. "Maybe Iraq is teaching us the cost of action...
Bush, who once spoke of being a war President, now refers to himself as a peace President who would spend a second term working to repair damaged relations and build democracy in the Middle East. He has repeatedly sent the signal to Arab countries in interviews with their media that he's not keen on more invasions. After three years of criticizing Bush for high-handedness, some foreign officials at the G8 summit in June saw a real change. U.S. officials, they said, were more willing to listen, more interested in finding a pragmatic solution to their differences. German Chancellor...
...finished Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton and is now on to one about Charles Lindbergh--Bush typically seems less curious about people's arguments than their motives for making them. That has its drawbacks. When the French warned about the potential hazards of occupying an Arab country--lessons learned from their colonial history--Bush's focus on their motives for avoiding war left little room for consideration of their arguments. Maybe Hans Blix wasn't just a peacenik but truly couldn't find weapons stockpiles. In fact, lots of people in a position to warn about risks that...
...conclude that the risks of underreacting were greater than the risks of overreacting. Bush's world view was so designed around strength that he could hardly have pulled back on Iraq once he became convinced that Saddam posed a short-term threat and that spreading democracy in the Arab world was a long-term necessity. Unlike in domestic affairs, where Bush could cut a deal at the end, there was no way to launch half an invasion. Devoted to action and surrounded by advisers who admired tough calls, Bush created a system that was almost designed for confrontation...
TIME Can you talk about the discussions you had about what it was going to take to enter an Arab country and introduce democracy with an army...