The last of the Eisenhower Republicans.
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City on a Hill and Embattled Fortress: An Anatomy of American Nationalism.
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Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power.
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[Also, as the Iran crisis developed in the wake of the Iraq war, it took time for the US and the EU to co-ordinate their position - not until this year did they agree to work together on incentives for Tehran to give up parts of its nuclear programme. And the US remains significantly tied up in Iraq.] A military threat would have been very credible after Afghanistan,.. But after Iraq, no one thinks they could invade and occupy Iran.
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This feeling is extremely widespread in Western Europe,.. And is one reason why there are at heart considerable doubts about just how these countries are going to be integrated. It's obviously a very bad thing..
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This picture is a tremendously important part of the self-image of George W. Bush, of Dick Cheney (from Wyoming, another frontier state) and indeed of their administration as a whole, and it has shaped that administration's aggressiveness in international affairs.
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I am quite convinced that if (U.S. President Dwight) Eisenhower were to come back today he would have written a review in support of my book
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A military threat would have been very credible after Afghanistan. But after Iraq, no one thinks they could invade and occupy Iran.
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If somebody like me, an absolute down-the-line centrist on this issue--my position on Israel/Palestine is identical to that of the Blair government--has so much difficulty publishing, it's a sign of how extremely limited and ethically rotten the media debate is in this country.
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The past has a way of walking around in the present, behaving as if it were alive.
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