Stopping torture and changing the policies of the Bush administration may not be enough. With a whole new type of terrorist bred from extraordinary rendition and torture, the last eight years may well prove inescapable.
The conservative movement is cracking up—just look at three memoirs of former administration officials. These new books may engage in justification and self-aggrandizement, but they do prescribe salves for fixing the conservative experiment.
We live in a world where the failures of a botched freedom agenda are everpresent. Yet no one in the foreign-policy establishment of either party seems to understand the changing realities of international affairs—or articulate coherent policy alt
Geoffrey Roberts, the author of Stalin's Wars, responds to Andrew J. Bacevich's review of the book in the September/October issue of The National Interest.
Geoffrey Roberts treads through morally hazardous territory portraying Stalin as a great statesman.
Wishful thinking is preventing the formation of a responsible American foreign-policy strategy.
Unflinching loyalty to the Bush Doctrine leads Robert Kaufman astray in his study of American foreign policy—and Truman, Reagan and Bush do not make a three-of-kind.
Managing the Pentagon and managing wars are two different things, a lesson Robert McNamara learned the hard way.
John Lukacs offers an intimate portrait of one of America's great strategists in George Kennan.
Policy decisions suffer when the rational center remains silent and catchphrases take over the debate.