The debacle in Iraq has reinforced the realist dictum, disparaged by idealists in the 1990s, that the legacies of geography, history and culture really do set limits on what can be accomplished in any...
That war [Bosnian war] in the early 1990s changed a lot for me. I never thought I would see, in Europe, a full-dress reprise of internment camps, the mass murder of civilians, the reinstiutution of to...
It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people...
America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
I respect those who say that the United States should simply withdraw from the Middle East, but I don't respect them for anything but their honesty.
If the counsel of the peaceniks had been followed, Kuwait would today be the nineteenth province of Iraq. Bosnia would be a trampled and cleansed province of Greater Serbia, Kosovo would have been emp...
Any critique of realism must begin with a sober assessment of the horrors of peace.
Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.