The Mission: Waging War and Keeping the Peace with America’s Military By Dana Priest, W. W. Norton & Company, 384 pages, $26.95 A principal deficiency of the argument against the Iraq War was that the war’s opponents, like the first Bush administration, would have left a brutal tyranny in power. Who wanted to side with […]
Stephen Kotkin
Stephen Kotkin, a Yale professor of history, is author of Magnetic Mountain : Stalinism as a Civilization.