Word: communisme
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...George W. Bush has already gone on record warning that countries who aren't with him are against the U.S., a flashback to the 1950s and '60s, when the West was confronting "evil" communism. That shouldn't be the bottom line: for many countries, such as Indonesia or Malaysia, staying out of the fray is simply the national interest. The U.S. must also be wary of abandoning liberal and democratic principles in the name of solidarity against its new enemy, terrorism. Washington must be careful not to give free reign to a regime just because it joins the alliance...
...moral authority (however cynically) on what it conceived as a scientific understanding of the march of history. This claim, of course, could not withstand genuine scrutiny. Tellingly, many of the Soviet Union's most prominent dissidents, such as Andrei Sakharov, were scientists. They saw that the claims of communism couldn't be empirically validated; moreover, they had the courage to say that the evidence proved the opposite of communism's claim to build peace, happiness or even a decent...
...struggle against terrorism, by contrast, is to some extent directed against people and groups who claim to be driven by faith. Theirs may be a distorted religiosity, but it is a powerfully felt one nonetheless. The appeals to reason that helped make communism quite literally unbelievable simply do not apply. The worst case is if the U.S. and its allies end up in a messy Vietnam-type debacle on the ground and in a new kind of cold war. As prosecuted by the eventual winners, the cold war was ultimately driven by the belief that freedom was a value worth...
...down the Atlantic slave trade. If Bush is serious, he has laid upon his successors a task hardly less demanding than the one he has adopted for himself. In just such fashion did Harry Truman in 1947 commit his nation to a 40-year-long cold war against totalitarian communism...
...precedents for this type of economic aid are compelling and persuasive. After World War II, the United States directed the rebuilding of Europe and Japan with the idea of making friends out of old enemies. No doubt the fear of Communism played a part in our decision to support the Marshall Plan and our similar commitment to Japan, but the remarkable success of Germany and Japan in the postwar era is compelling proof that countries that once were dominated by imperial, even evil governments can be rehabilitated. Though often overlooked, not only did the U.S. feed starving populations and rebuild...