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Whatever history
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If Europeans
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All in all, Vietnam
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United States
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Non-Western or
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After the 1980s,
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priorities and
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A Western-oriented
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Political maturity
demanded
opposition to
Bush. On this
point Western
European elites
and mass
opinion agreed.
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preferred method
of globalism
in the 1990s.
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another for an
unchosen pattern
of globalization
to be imposed
upon the West.
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What remnants
of a Western
sensibility still
reside in the
U.S. elite are
not much more
than remnants.
In ten or twenty
years they will
probably be gone
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Conclusion: A World with Less West
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Current U.S. and
European foreign
policy is shapeless
or rudderless
because the
narrative of
Western liberty
has been removed
from it and no
comparable
narrative found
to take its place.
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