You Have to Try

David Brooks asks:
We’re about to enter our 19th consecutive year of Truman-envy. Ever since the Berlin Wall fell, people have looked at the way Harry Truman, George C. Marshall, Dean Acheson and others created forward-looking global institutions after World War II, and they’ve asked: Why can’t we rally that kind of international cooperation to confront [...]

Obama Defines the Middle

For all the hand wringing on the left about Obama’s supposed rush to the center, people seem to be really missing what has happened, especially on foreign policy. Obama hasn’t moved to the middle. He has redefined it. When the history of the 2008 campaign is written I have a feeling that the last couple [...]

Wrong Communist Country

When Amnesty International called Guantanamo Bay the “Gulag of our times” the response from the Bush administration and its allies was utter outrage that anyone could make such a comparison. The Washington Post said:
we draw the line at the use of the word “gulag” or at the implication that the United States has somehow become [...]