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- ""Beyond Fear: America's Role in an Uncertain World "- A Documentary Special"
- Summary: "Beyond Fear" explores new scenarios for US global leadership built on common action, trust, and hope.
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Review of "Beyond Fear: America's Role in an Uncertain World "- A Documentary Special
David Swatling
Posted on June 08, 2007 at 10:54 PM
A polished and well-presented news magazine with indepth, reporter-driven stories. It tackles America's global image problem by focusing on "soft security issues" like military programs providing much-needed humanitarian assistence in Africa and Asia. It's great that part of the US military's enormous budget is spent doing good deeds. But its a bit disconcerting to hear such projects referred to as "pre-emptive first strikes" against terrorism. So much for American altruism.
I'm wary of applying the "documentary" tag to a news magazine such as this. I'm also wary of a program which so earnestly seems to be trying to foster a better image of the country for its own citizens. As an expat living across the pond and acutely aware of America's global image problem, I feel the promo material here somewhat misrepresents what I actually heard.
But if long newsy features are your thing, there is lots of interesting information here and it's nice to hear from Colin Powell again at the end.