Where is US foreign policy headed? Virtually all thinkers about foreign policy today are proposing a return to something old. No one likes armed missionaries: A review of The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-First Century by G. John Ikenberry, Thomas J. Knock, Anne-Marie Slaughter and Tony Smith; and The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman. Matt Bai on how Afghanistan might be Vietnam — and Obama the real Kennedy. From The National, the commitment to denying terrorists "safe haven" anywhere on Earth, Matthew Yglesias writes, will spell disaster in Afghanistan and beyond; moderate Islamists have remained committed to democracy, Marc Lynch writes, but attempts to frustrate their participation can only end badly; and eight years after the invasion of Afghanistan,

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