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PAUL KENNEDY
The British liberal government Mr Gladson's government
went into Egypt in 1882 to subdue unrest by the Mujahadin,
the fundamentalist Islams against the Western Residents
in Cairo and Alexandria. And Mr Gladson promised in
no less than 52 public speeches, that pretty soon
Britain will be out of Egypt. It didn't leave Egypt
until 1956. So I'm worried about a kind of what the
Oxford historian Neil Ferguson calls a "creeping
American territoriality.' We will deny it. We will
say we have no intention of being like the Roman or
British empire, but we've had garrisons in Saudi Arabia
for 10 years now. What will happen when they've been
in 50 years.
 Since
that same US opinion believes that this is a special
war between good and evil, analogies about earlier
wars by European colonialists will seem insulting
and wrong. What
Balfour Could Teach Bush, The Guardian |
Many
American readers of this column may not really
care about the growing criticisms and worries
expressed by outside voices. To them, the reality
is that the United States is unchallenged Number
One, and all the rest - Europe, Russia, China,
the Arab world - just have to accept that plain
fact. Has
the US lost its way?, The Guardian |
On
Point: Maintaining America's Power
Paul Kennedy shares his views on the changes the
nation needs to make to maintain its role as the world's
superpower with Tom Ashbrook on On Point, from WBUR. |
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