USA And The Future Of The World

[acharya]

olha, Brazil
<b>U.S. Media Perpetuates Bush Era</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Cornered in a press conference, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, veteran of the fight against the “evil soviet empire,” had to end with “was I clear?” when asked for the third time if he would send troops to remove the Russians from the country to which the U.S. promised NATO membership in exchange for sending 2,000 soldiers to Iraq.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The war in the Caucasus transformed into dust the idea that the end of the Bush administration would bury the more messianic instincts of an era of unipolar illusions, which he used until the brink of their existence.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->