Volume 51, Number 14 · September 23, 2004
The Making of a Mess
By Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet
by James Mann
Viking, 426 pp., $25.95
A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies
by James Bamford
Doubleday, 420 pp., $26.95
After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order
by Emmanuel Todd, translated from the French by C. Jon Delogu, with aforeword by Michael Lind
Columbia University Press, 233 pp., $29.95
Who got us into this mess anyway—our headlong plunge into preventive war against Iraq? The formal, and facile, answer is George W. Bush. But our president campaigned four years ago on a promise of humility in foreign policy and a rejection of nation-building as social work. Who persuaded him to change his mind?
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