Gulf News, American foreign policy seems to be in a quandary, and not just because US troops are bogged down in Afghanistan and Iraq, the two Muslim countries that they invaded and occupied after September 11, 2001.
There is a yawning chasm between pronouncements and practices, with Washington still groping for a policy on how to deal with an increasingly agitated Muslim World or cope with a more assertive international community, including once docile Russia, European Union and the United Nations.
During his October 28 press conference in the White House, President Bush categorically stated that “our war is not against the Muslim faith”. But the man tasked by the Pentagon to “combat terrorism” in the Muslim world
