La política exterior de GWB

Analistas de la Brookings Institution -un prestigioso think tank de los EE.UU- acaban de publicar un ensayo titulado The Bush Revolution: The Remaking of America's Foreign Policy. (se puede leer y bajar en http://www.brookings.edu/views/papers/daalder/20030425.htm)

El análisis no es particularmente revelador en tanto el factor causal de esta remake de "El Imperio Contraataca" que estamos viendo (y sufriendo) es el ataque terrorista del 11 de Septiembre. Sin embargo, es interesante observar que, como dicen Daalder y Lindsay:

"George W. Bush campaigned for the presidency on the promise of a "humble" foreign policy that would avoid his predecessor's mistake in "overcommitting our military around the world." During his first seven months as president he focused his attention primarily on domestic affairs. That all changed over the succeeding 20 months. The United States waged wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. U.S. troops went to Georgia, the Philippines, and Yemen to help those governments defeat terrorist groups operating on their soil. Rather than cheering American humility, people and governments around the world denounced American arrogance. Critics complained that the motto of the United States had become oderint dum metuant—Let them hate as long as they fear."

Mi conclusión sobre el asunto es que ahora los estadounidenses no se sienten seguros en su propia casa y, por eso, lo mejor que pueden hacer es hacernos sentir inseguros al resto del mundo.