Topic: POLITIK - on March 16, 2003 at 11:46:14 PM CET
'Imperial spirit' inspires Hawks on Iraq and Paul Wolfowitz
"Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords."
So reads a bronze plaque that sits on Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld’s massive desk in his office across the Potomac River from here. It encapsulates much of the spirit that animates the hawks in the administration of President George W. Bush, and their supporters. The quotation is by former President Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. Bush’s favorite president, who led the charge on San Juan Hill in Cuba in the supposedly decisive battle of the 1898 Spanish-American War that, with the defeat of the Spanish Navy in Manila Bay half a world away, established the United States as an imperial power with global reach.
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