Joe Klein's Research
Charles Krauthammer's foreign policy column
After Sept. 11 Krauthammer wrote about a radical and dominant approach to
foreign policy, which the Bush Administration adopted. Now the next
President
will need to be an international expert, have a style of patient
diplomacy
and preferably have spent some time overseas or in the military.
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contributed
to America's largely slovenly culture. Are We Rome by Cullen Murphy
and A
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