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AMERICAN GLOBAL STRATEGY AND THE
“WAR ON TERRORISM”
But in the fear of admitting philosophers to power, because they are no longer to
be had simple and earnest, but are made up of mixed elements; and in turning from
them to passionate and less complex characters, who are by nature fitted for war
rather than peace; and in the value set by (Timocrats) upon military stratagems and
contrivances, and in the waging of everlasting wars – this State will be for the most
part peculiar.”
—Socrates (on the Timocratic state),
Plato’s Republic
(360 B.C.E)
I hold it to be a sign of great prudence in men to refrain alike from threats and from
the use of insulting language, for neither of these things deprives the enemy of his
power, but the first puts him more on his guard, while the other intensifies his hatred
of you and makes him more industrious in devising means to harm you.
—Machiavelli,
The Discourses
(II.26), 1512-17
Terror is not always the effect of force, and an armament is not a victory. If you do
not succeed, you are without resource; for, conciliation failing, force remains; but
force failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left.
—Edmund Burke,
Speech on the Conciliation with the Colonies
, 1775
… (T)he moralizing politician, by glossing over principles of politics which are
opposed to the right with the pretext that human nature is not capable of the good
as reason prescribes it, only makes reform impossible and perpetuates the violation
of law. Instead of possessing the
practical science
they boast of, these politicians
have only
practices
; they flatter the power which is then ruling so as not to be remiss
in their private advantage, and they sacrifice the nation and, possibly, the whole
world.
—Immanuel Kant,
Perpetual Peace
, 1795
American Global Strategy and the
“War on Terrorism”
HALL GARDNER
American University of Paris, France
© Hall Gardner 2005
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Gardner, Hall
American global strategy and the “war on terrorism”
1. War on Terrorism, 2001- 2. United States - Foreign
relations - 21
st
century
I. Title
327.7'3'0090511
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gardner, Hall.
American global strategy and the “war on terrorism” by Hall Gardner.
p.cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN0-7546-4512-6
1. United States--Foreign relations--2001 - 2. War on Terrorism, 2001- I. Title.
JZ1480.G3672005
327.73'009'0511--dc22
2005013076
ISBN-13: 978-0-7546-4512-2 (hbk)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7546-7094-0 (pbk)
Reprinted 2007
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