Maritain's Middle Way: A Resource for U.S. Policy in the Middle East
Ed Lynch Saturday, 1 December 2007
Pursuing a moral foreign policy while dealing with the realities of power in international relations is vitally important to creating successful U.S. policies for the Middle East and, most importantly, for the 21st century struggle against Islamic terrorism. The members of the Bush Administration usually called "neoconservatives" (Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, among others), have repeatedly stated that helping democracy to take hold in Muslim countries will make those countries more peaceful and more likely to become America's allies. President George W. Bush, for his part, said as early as 1999: "Some have tried to pose a choice between American ideals and American interests—between who we are and how we act. But the choice is false."
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