A good article by Zbigniew Brzezinski on the damaging effects of saying "He who is not with us, is against us".

Today, for the first time, America's commitment to idealism worldwide is challenged by a sense of vulnerability. The United States has to be very careful in that setting not to become self-centered, preoccupied only with itself and subordinating everything else in the world to an exaggerated sense of insecurity.

I wonder how effective it is to govern by fear.

First, making the "war on terrorism" the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today reflects a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's primary superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealis
tic traditions.

The second troubling condition, which contributes to the crisis of credibility and to the isolation in which the United States finds itself today, is the absence of a clear, sharply defined perception about what is actually happening abroad.

Raoul