From Foreign Affairs, Condoleezza Rice on Rethinking the National Interest: American Realism for a New World; David G. Victor (Stanford) and Sarah Eskreis-Winkler (CFR): In the Tank: Making the Most of Strategic Oil Reserves; Walter Russell Mead (CFR): The New Israel and the Old: Why Gentile Americans Back the Jewish State; a review of A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East by Lawrence Freedman (and more); a review of Freedom's Unsteady March: America's Role in Building Arab Democracy by Tamara Cofman Wittes; and a review of Law and the Long War: The Future of Justice in the Age of Terror by Benjamin Wittes. From the Journal of Political Philosophy, David Estlund (Brown): On Following Orders in an Unjust War. James Risen on the return of the neocons: Bush hawks aggressively working to rewrite accepted Iraq war history. From Rolling Stone, haunted by the ghosts of Vietnam, the one-time maverick has transformed himself into just another liberal-bashing fearmonger. General Wesley Clark drew fire recently for saying the obvious about McCain’s tortured logic (and more from NPQ). It was top down, stupid: The Bush administration's "bad apples" theory goes sour. The US won't prosecute the torture policymakers for war crimes, but other countries probably will. Here are medieval torture's 10 biggest myths.
