The Bush administration has achieved some results in the battlefield of anti-terrorism after three years of the 9-11 incident with some hidden troubles. It wishes to establish a new state security and military strategy in the anti-terrorism era. But its gains and losses remain to be put to the test in practice. It wishes to do something to reshape the international relations. However, the relations between big powers are hard to be predicted as US interests are put above the interests of other countries.

After 9-11 incident it is no doubt that anti-terrorism becomes a matter of the utmost concern of Bush's internal and foreign affairs. The Republican Party Congress becomes Bush's myth stage while Democratic Party Congress turns to be a position for attacking Bush. US President George W. Bush said recently "anti-terrorism war cannot be won'', which provides a peg for the attack of the Democratic Party. How to evaluate Bush's achievements in anti-terrorism is the core for appraising Bush's work in internal and foreign affairs.

In the initial stage of anti-terrorism, Bush's decision produced favorable comments from the government and the public at home and won the support from the international society. In the period of several months, it formed an international anti-terrorism alliance and used military forces in Afghanistan and wiped out the most part of al-Qaeda group. The international society tries to shorten the distances with the US by joining anti-terrorism activities.

The turning point came when Bush made his state of union message in 2002. The Bush's anti-terrorism policy has strayed from the right path in three aspects.

Firstly, anti-terrorism was magnified. After winning the Afghanistan war, Bush advanced a new conception of so-called "Axis of Evils'', connecting the three countries of Iraq, Iran and DPRK with anti-terrorism. However, the three countries have little connections with terrorism.

Secondly, the anti-terrorism mode is too hard with a lack of softness. Without evidence and the support of major powers, it launched a war against Iraq.

Thirdly, more benefits were put on the United States than on other countries. It shows in the following aspects: It adopts the policy of letting those who combined with me thrive and those who resisted me perish; uses double standards in classifying the anti-terrorism activities. If the activities are against the US, then those are terrorism activities; if the activities happened in other countries, those may be not.

The Iraqi war is the turning point for the anti-terrorism war of the Bush administration. The speedy win in the Afghanistan war leads to the "New Empire's" ambition. In the end, the US has enlarged its anti-terrorism target.

New security strategy and military placement: efforts made to transcend anti-terrorism.

Why Bush administration faces a dilemma is that Bush wants to achieve something beyond anti-terrorism. That is why he is developing a new state security strategy and planning new military strategic placement.

The nucleus of the new security strategy is: strike first to gain the initiative, which is where the Bushism is. The conception exerts a great impact on international relations. Apart from China, the major powers in the world follow suit. They also put forward their respective strategy of "striking first to gain the initiative''. Another example, the weak countries have made efforts in producing weapons of mass destruction in order to prevent them from suffering the "striking first policy''. Because of this a new and instable international situation has been formed.

The new military layout shows in three aspects. First, the absolute importance of military strength is stressed in comprehensive US national capacities: increase military expenditure in a big margin. Secondly, the redistribution of US troops stationed in other countries has been made globally. Thirdly instilling a new theory of "actual combat first". The main idea of US global military adjustment is to bring high effectiveness and flexibility to US troops stationed overseas.

The worth mentioning is: the above strategic adjustment has been pushed on together with the anti-terrorism war in the past three years. The negative impact of the adjustment on international relations is becoming obvious gradually.

Reshaping international relations

In the past three years, the major engineering of the Bush administration is to reshape the relations between big powers. When going into power, Bush expelled Russian diplomats, called China as aggressive competitors and tore up many international conventions. The 9-11 incident has offered US opportunities to reshape the relations between big powers. To fight against terrorism, it relaxed the relations with Russia, the European countries and China. To seek more space for development, the big powers have also tried to improve their relations with US by the use of anti-terrorism.

But the interactions have brought two kinds of illusion to Bush. First he deems the anti-terrorism cooperation between big powers as support to the US strategy from big powers. Second Bush thinks the cooperation and support from the big powers are unconditional with indefinite duration. As a result, the Iraqi war has created a new rift between US and major big powers once more.

By People's Daily Online