10/11/2000

“During the 2000 presidential campaign [on October 11, 2000, during the second debate with Democratic nominee Al Gore], [Republican nominee George W.] Bush had called for a ‘humble’ foreign policy, arguing that it was not ‘the role of the United States to go around the world and say this is the way it’s got to be.’ ”

 – Eugene Jarecki, The American Way of War, Pages 13-14