Making War to Keep Peace

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Making War to Keep Peace (New York: Harper Collins, 2007), 367 pp. Reviewed by Doug Bandow Jeane Kirkpatrick, who served as UN ambassador under President Ronald Reagan, was commonly viewed as the godmother of neoconservatism. Yet when she...

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Make China Be Nice?

The despotic regime in Myanmar is among the most odious governments on earth. The military has ruled the isolated state for more than four decades. The urban democracy movement, symbolized by Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, for years has battled bullets and...

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The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007), 484 pp.   The collective shrieking and caterwauling has been loud and continuous. How dare these two scholars – John...

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The Korean Failure as a Model for Iraq

Amidst the smoking ruin of the Bush administration's Iraq policy comes yet another vision of the future: Iraq like Korea. A half century hence American forces will remain on patrol along the Euphrates. It's a profoundly stupid idea, but then, no other...

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The Price of Promiscuous Intervention

The Republican Party once professed to promote fiscal responsibility. It sought to limit government growth, expected program benefits to exceed costs, and refused to give any agency a blank check. No longer. If there is a Republican Party consensus –...

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Treacherous Alliance

Trita Parsi, Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the U.S. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007), 361 pp. by Doug Bandow Communist dictators and apparatchiks have routinely visited the U.S., with nary an eyebrow raised in polite...

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Desperately Searching for a New Foreign Policy

Other than an increasingly beleaguered band of administration factotums and neoconservative propagandists, few Americans defend the decision to invade Iraq. The mistakes have been too catastrophic and too many for the rest of us to take seriously more of the same...

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Are Republicans Crazy?

After every Republican presidential debate, viewers must ask: are the candidates crazy? Not Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), who has proposed dropping a nuke on Mecca or Medina, but the others, who have tied themselves to the Bush administration's disastrous Iraq policy....

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China: Fragile Superpower

Susan L. Shirk, China: Fragile Superpower (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 320 pp. The People's Republic of China (PRC) seems destined for superpower status. Already the world's most populous nation, the PRC has been enjoying one of globe's highest rates of...

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