Rise to Globalism Quotes

“plan your work and work your plan"

"where there is a will, there is a way”
― Stephen E. Ambrose, Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy since 1938

“Fear dominated our collective emotional life from 2001 to 2008, and the Bush administration sought to capitalize on it: WMD, anthrax, Gitmo, Abu Ghraib, Homeland Security, the never-ending war on terror. During the Bush years, there was a repressive aura about life in Washington that unfortunately demoted our most cherished civil liberties to luxuries of the past. A kingdom of fear had been constructed in the United States, every day an orange alert. Our national rhythm had been hijacked.”
― Stephen E. Ambrose, Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938

“debacle in Lebanon was also ignored, even when in mid-September terrorists drove a truck carrying explosives into the U.S. Embassy in Beirut and blew it up, killing twenty-three people. Reagan responded to critics by charging that the blame for the disaster lay with “previous administrations” for the “near destruction of our intelligence capabilities.” By this time, Reagan had been in office three and a half years!”
― Stephen E. Ambrose, Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938

“The campaign for human rights brightened Carter’s image, but had little discernible positive effect and did considerable harm. He preached to the converted; the sinners deeply resented Carter’s sermons on human rights and either ignored his pleas for improved treatment of their political prisoners or actually increased the repression.”
― Stephen E. Ambrose, Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938