As the Vietnamese president visits Washington, no one can forget his country's unmatched geopolitcal endowments of interest to anyone seeking a "hedge" against a rising China.
The National Interest comes out ahead of the Baker Commission, offering a symposium on Iraq by distinguished authors that confront the key questions that many others are circling around: What is victory in Iraq?
It may be that the best one-volume history of the United States has been penned by a Brit. David Reynolds takes us into the very essence of what it means to be an American, offering wisdom perhaps only possible from an outsider.
