POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Unilateralism, Big Country, Wishful Thinking
13 Jul 2014
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Causes of war: unipolarity, us can do what it wants, no one can protect the us. No one could stop/threaten/persuade/bribe them into not doing it. Ultimately protection of us was dependent on the us itself. Any threats to them could only be responded to by them themselves. Nato did not support the invasion of iraq. 9/11: created a sense of need to prevent and preempt. Don"t want your first response to be after another attack that is worse. They cannot wait to take a blow. Cannot be in fear: effect on domestic politics. Made it hard to criticize the bush administration. Hard for democrats to criticize the bush administration. The media had to produce the most positive sides of the administration. Need to stick together brought some support to bush. Politicians remember the last time they invade iraq (1990 invasion in. Al qaeda asked us to get out of saudi arabia.
