The End of the Bush Revolution by Philip H. Gordon

From Foreign Affairs, July/August 2006

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Summary: The Bush administration's "revolutionary" foreign policy rhetoric has not changed, but its actual policies have: after squandering U.S. legitimacy, breaking the domestic bank, and getting the United States bogged down in an unsuccessful war, the Bush doctrine has run up against reality and become unsustainable. The counterrevolution should be welcomed -- and, if possible, locked in.

PHILIP H. GORDON is a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution and a co-author, with Jeremy Shapiro, of Allies at War: America, Europe, and the Crisis Over Iraq. ... more