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Article: Bush's 'new kind of war' - how different? Bush's words mean military action, but he also marshals other tools in long effort.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- September 17, 2001
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Byline: Francine Kiefer and Howard LaFranchi Staff writers of The Christian Science Monitor
WASHINGTON -- It is an urgent and emphatic statement by President Bush, and had it been uttered in the previous century and under different circumstances, its meaning would be crystal clear.
But as the president himself has said, this is a "new kind of war," and so the American public, Washington's allies, and even its enemies are left wondering what exactly the stepped-up war rhetoric of recent days signifies.
Foremost, say military and foreign-policy analysts, it should be interpreted as a message designed to cement support at home and abroad for ...