Abstract
In this brief article, our objective is to survey the pre-war to pre-war (i.e. from Iraq to Iran), National Security Strategies of George W. Bush and assess their implications for the global peace. Attempt in also made to show the impact of Israel Lobby on the U.S foreign policy. In Sept 2002, while preparing for a preemptive strike on Iraq, Bush in his prewar National Security Strategy underlined that the old policy of “Containment & deterrence” that served the U.S so well during the Cold War was no longer relevant. The global situation, he emphasized, had drastically changed. Communism, our adversary during the Cold War, was gone and had been replaced by militant Islam, the new threat to our global interests. In the Cold War the Soviets were convinced that nuclear war was no option, as it would entail mutual death and destruction of both the warring sides. Brutal terrorists of toady, however, have no such qualms or considerations. They are our more determined ideological enemies and are anxious to use against us all sorts of weapons of mass destruction including the nuclear weapons. Moreover, these trans-national terrorists are not alone; they are fully sponsored by some rogue states especially the “axis of evil”. Iraq, in particular, is seriously contemplating on transferring these WMD to Osama bin Ladin and his al-Qaeda organization who, in turn, plans to use them to kill our people-men, women, and children – in our own cities and streets. Given this geo-political scenario, and the vicious intents of our sworn enemies, we would be ill advised to wait and see the storms to overtake us. Prudence recommends that we should aggressively exercise our natural right of self-defense and go for preemptive strike to eliminate the potential dangers that may threaten us (or our allies) now or in the near future
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Saleem . (2006) BUSH RENEWS HIS WAR MANIFESTO , The Dialogue, Volume 1, Issue 2.
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