\r\nIs Bush's awesome increase in military spending a reasonable response to the afermath of September 11, or is he creating a force almost too powerful for its own good? Peter Beaumont and Ed Vulliamy report\r\nIs America too powerful for its own good?\r\n<\/p>
\r\nhttp:\/\/www.observer.co.uk\/worldview\/story\/0,11581,648112,00.html\r\n<\/p>
\r\nObserver Worldview \r\n<\/p>
\r\nSunday February 10, 2002
\r\nThe Observer \r\n<\/p>
\r\nThere is a United States special forces dog-handler who meets journalists, diplomats and aid workers off the UN flight to Kabul. His job is to search luggage and ensure the security of US troops in Afghanistan. He is short, gingery and aggressive. His skills at persuasion are limited to shouting at the milling crowd: 'Stand back! Stand back! My dog will bite!' \r\n<\/p>
\r\nLast week that phrase had become the defining motto and operating credo for the military and foreign policy of the Bush administration. Already President George W. Bush has put Iran, Iraq and North Korea on notice as terrorist-sponsoring nations at the centre of an international 'axis of evil', despite the CIA's recent evidence that none of them was in the business of threatening the United States at present.\r\n<\/p>
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