An Iraq Syndrome?

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¹ Maureen Dowd, ‘After the War: White House Memo; War Introduces a Tougher Bush to Nation’, New York Times , 1 March 1991, p. 1.

² Ron Suskind, ‘Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush’, New York Times Magazine , 17 October 2004.

³ ‘Americans Assess US International Strategy’, WorldPublicOpinon.org poll, 7 December 2006, http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/pdf/dec06/USIntlStrategy_Dec06_rpt.pdf; ‘World Powers in the 21st Century: The Results of a Representative Survey in Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States’, Bertelsmann Stiftung, 2 June 2006, p. 26, http://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/cps/rde/xbcr/SID-0A000F0A-E4E60014/bst_en/EmnidStudieResultsRepresentativeSurvey.pdf.

⁴ Jim Rutenberg and Megan C. Thee, ‘Americans Showing Isolationist Streak, Poll Finds’, New York Times , 27 July 2006.

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Ronald Steel

Ronald Steel is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California and author of, among other works, Temptations of a Superpower (Harvard University Press, 1995). This article was prepared for a Council on Foreign Relations/IISS Symposium on Iraq's Impact on the Future of US Foreign and Defence Policy, with generous support from Rita E. Hauser.