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THE BUSHES' NEW WORLD DISORDER

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20040316
Author:JAMES CARROLL

"IT MUST BE CONSIDERED THAT THERE IS NOTHING MORE DIFFICULT TO CARRY OUT, NOR MORE DOUBTFUL OF SUCCESS, NOR MORE DANGEROUS TO HANDLE, THAN TO INITIATE A NEW ORDER OF THINGS." THIS WARNING IS FROM NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI, YET IT HAS NEVER HAD SHARPER RESONANCE. More than a decade ago, after Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, President George H. W. Bush explicitly sought to initiate, as he put it to Congress, a "new world order." He made that momentous declaration on Sept. 11, 1990. Eleven years later, the suddenly mystical date of 9/11 motivated his son to finish what the father began. A year ...

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