| Summary: | President George W. Bush's National Security Strategy of the United States prompted front-page headlines and sparked a flurry of greatly alarmed reactions at home and abroad. Bush contended that the events of September 11 were just one awful example of a greater danger and that he was now proposing a plan for confronting this in its full dimension. The president's insistence on this broad approach provoked most of the debate because his invocation of an “axis of evil,” his embrace of regime change in Iraq, and his warning that each nation must choose a side in the war on terror struck some Americans and most Europeans as too all-encompassing or too aggressive. This far-reaching plan for addressing the danger appeared to confirm their worst fears. Bush's response to the challenge that confronted America after September 11 is, however, both thoughtful and brave.
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