By Robert G. Kaufman
Price:$35.00
Format:cloth
ISBN:978-0-8131-2434-6
Subjects:Political Science, International Studies
Pages: 264
Year Published: 2007
Trim Size: 6x9
Noted historian Robert G. Kaufman contends that the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, shattered the optimism so prevalent in the United States during the tranquil and prosperous 1990s. President George W. Bush's controversial grand strategy for waging a preemptive Global War on Terror has ignited passionate debate about the purposes of American power and the nation's proper role in the world.
In Defense of the Bush Doctrine offers a vigorous argument for the principles of moral democratic realism that inspired the Bush administration's policy of regime change in Iraq. Kaufman connects the Bush Doctrine and current issues in American foreign policy to the deeper tradition of American diplomacy, drawing from positive lessons as well as cautionary tales from the past. Two key premises shape Kaufman's case for the Bush Doctrine's conformity with moral democratic realism. The first premise is the fundamental purpose of American foreign policy since its inception: to ensure the integrity and vitality of a free society "founded upon the dignity and worth of the individual." The second premise is that the cardinal virtue of prudence (the right reason about things to be done) must be the standard for determining the best practicable American grand strategy.
In Defense of the Bush Doctrine provides both scholars and lay readers a broader historical context for the post-September 11 American foreign policy that will transform world politics well into the future.
Robert G. Kaufman, professor of public policy at Pepperdine University, is the author of numerous publications, including Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics. He is a former Bradley Scholar and current adjunct scholar at the Heritage Foundation.
Reviews:
"Kaufman's fine book is required reading for thoughtful candidates and citizens alike."--George Weigel, Catholic Exchange
"An important book about the central issue of our time--the struggle against Islamist extremism. Kaufman understands this fight, and has made an effective case for the imperative of taking bold action to defeat this threat to our security and the ideals we cherish."--Senator Joe Lieberman
"President Bush could use an unapologetic argument for his foreign policy these days, and this is it...[Kaufmann] makes a persuasive case."--The Weekly Standard
"In this excellent new book, Kaufman describes the Bush approach to foreign policy as the latest example of what he calls "moral democratic realism" an approach he attributes to FDR, Truman, and Reagan as well."--National Review
"Kaufman presents a thoughtful, comprehensive case. It ranks as the most histocially powerful support of Mr. Bush and his doctrine, including the Iraq war."--Washington Times
"The best part of Kaufman's book is his critical analysis of alternatives, in U.S. grand strategy, to the Bush doctrine, whose "moral democratic realism" entails the prudent application of American power to replace dangerous regimes in the Middle East."--Library Journal (starred review)
"This is a very well-grounded defense of the Bush Doctrine. It is scholarly and political in the best sense of both terms. Those who disagree (as I do) will be challenged and informed."--Robert Jervis, author of American Foreign Policy in a New Era
"A very interesting book, based on a fresh concept of 'moral democratic realism,' that distinguishes Kaufman's work from that of Charles Krauthammer, William Kristol, Robert Kagan, Francis Fukuyama, and others. A helpful and clarifying book."--Michael Novak, coauthor of Washington's God and author of The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
"Kaufman offers a much needed, well-reasoned defense of the present Bush doctrine in the Middle East. As Kaufman shows, for all the heartbreak in our present efforts in Iraq, ultimately it remains the best practical and moral course to foster some third way other than either autocracy or theocracy--precisely the reason why al Qaeda must stop our efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq before reform takes hold. A much needed corrective to much of the contemporary hysteria of the hour."--Victor Davis Hanson, author of A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
Also, please buy,
Eric W. Bragg Military Surrealism Books (in support of Bush)
This is Eric W.Bragg from Surrealcoconut.com and I have two new surrealist books out now related to the military and surrealism. It’s
a surrealist attempt at patriotism towards our great nation and all the
authors are white, there are no African Americans that are among
us in the surrealist groups. Enjoy the books, they are affordable!
http://www.surrealcoconut.com The Somnambulist Footprints
by a bunch of white surrealists
The Somnambulist Footprints is the result of a collective project in which several contemporary surrealists and fellow travelers wrote short stories according to their own interests and imperatives, based on their common desire to subvert the very foundations of conventional reality, both on the written page and – more importantly – beyond it, in the open space of consciousness. Contributing authors: Mariela Arzadun, J. Karl Bogartte, Daniel Boyer, Eric W. Bragg, Mattias Forshage, Parry Harnden, Dale Michael Houstman, Philip Kane, Merl, Ribitch, Matthew Rounsville, Shibek, Andrew Torch, and Xtian. With illustrations in black and white. Edited and introduced by Eric W. Bragg.
(216 pages) Paperback: $11.64
The Midnight Blade of Sonic Honey
by Eric W. Bragg
"The neck that was once a wrist, choked on a wishbone made from a sliver of moonlight, which manifested itself as a seeing eye on the back of the hand that was just like a cheery fireplace on the back of a skull that became a house. Blue sapphire icicles were cried out of this synthetic eye, evoking the cold appearance of a dark witch who kept her animals in cages, who moved her freight elevators up, just like she went down on her dumb waiters, and who sliced off the heads of infidels expecting the interior of their bodies to be an emerald honeycomb of light that would weep strange songs." The Midnight Blade of Sonic Honey is the pairing of a surrealist novel and an automatic text that were written nearly seven years apart but which tell the same story, albeit as complementary permutations of each other. Dripping with bile and centered within a gothic sensibility, this journey opens the reader's skull like a freshly cracked coconut.
(236 pages) Paperback: $12.44
Again all the authors are white and there is no blacks amongst us, because they are not welcome into our surrealist movement!
Mariela Arzadun, J. Karl Bogartte, Daniel Boyer, Eric W. Bragg, Mattias Forshage, Parry Harnden, Dale Michael Houstman, Philip Kane, Merl, Ribitch, Matthew Rounsville, Shibek, Andrew Torch, and Xtian
