Toward a Realistic Peace

Toward a Realistic Peace

Written by Rudolph Giuliani

From Foreign Affairs, September/October 2007

The Foreign Affairs.org website has this article posted today that was written by Rudolph W. Giuliani. It starts off like this... We are all members of the 9/11 generation... The defining challenges of the twentieth century ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Full recognition of the first great challenge of the twenty-first century came with the attacks of September 11, 2001, even though Islamist terrorists had begun their assault on world order decades before. Confronted with an act of war on American soil, our old assumptions about conflict between nation-states fell away. Civilization itself, and the international system, had come under attack by a ruthless and radical Islamist enemy... America and its allies have made progress since that terrible day. We have responded forcefully to the Terrorists' War on Us, abandoning a decadelong -- and counterproductive -- strategy of defensive reaction in favor of a vigorous offense. And we have set in motion changes to the international system that promise a safer and better world for generations to come... But this war will be long, and we are still in its early stages...
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Toward a Realistic Peace

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