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Bush league diplomacy : how the neoconservatives are putting the world at risk / Craig R. Eisendrath and Melvin A. Goodman. Eisendrath, Craig R., author.
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2004.
268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bush League Diplomacy offers a comprehensive critique of the Bush administration's handling of international relations. Craig R. Eisendrath and Melvin A. Goodman, both senior fellows at the Center for International Policy, demonstrate the folly and the dangers of abandoning diplomacy and relying on military force as the chief means of conducting U.S. foreign policy. They provide a thorough analysis of the thinking behind Bush's foreign policy, its pundits and practitioners who have longed for the opportunity to put their neoconservative ideas into practice, its destruction of arms control, its subversion of intelligence, its disdain for diplomacy and international law, and its predictable and disastrous consequences. The authors argue that a policy based on bullying sows seeds of resentment and mistrust among our potential allies and encourages nations hostile to our interests to seek nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction to protect themselves against a belligerent world power.