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Bureaucratic Politics and Belief Systems in the Bush Administration
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By Dr Sharifullah Dorani* Introduction The presidential candidate, George W. Bush, in 2000, was not someone who knew about the outside world, nor did he seem to be interested in it. He had barely travelled outside America, did not read about other countries, and knew no foreign leaders. During his election campaign, he did…
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How the 2002 NSC Defined America’s Afghan Strategy
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By Dr Sharifullah Dorani* Introduction After the Taliban was defeated and al Qaeda was on the run, the National Security Council (NSC) of the George W Bush Administration held a meeting in February 2002 in the White House Situation Room to discuss their Afghan strategy. The meeting resulted in the making of the counterterrorism…
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Iraq War’s Impact on Afghanistan and Bush War Cabinet
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By Dr Sharifullah Dorani* ‘I have a real concern that given our preoccupation in Iraq, we’ve not devoted sufficient troops and funding to Afghanistan to ensure success in that mission….Afghanistan has been the forgotten war.’ President George W Bush[1] Introduction As studied in my other article,[2] the Global War on Terror (GWOT), which the…