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...agree to send troops into a foreign conflict only if there are clear objectives and a clear exit strategy. The question of the U.S.’s responsibility as a world power is one that the country has been wrestling with for much of the past century, and Halberstam pointedly places it in the context of the last decade. The post-Cold War world is one in which America rules alone, and its citizens don’t feel any great urge to pay attention to the rest of the world because danger—at least until...
...Great Depression and World War II in his youth—was reluctant to take credit for the foreign policy achievements of his first term, and how Albert Gore ’69 came across during the 2000 presidential campaign as awkward, stiff and even self-defeating. Halberstam writes, “To those who had studied both Clinton and Gore, the outgoing president was clearly the more skilled politician, his loyalty always calibrated to the needs of the moment, his allegiances, like his thoughts, always inner-directed. Gore, not by any means as gifted a politician, was by contrast...
...Halberstam, a former sports editor and managing editor of The Crimson, has been here before: War in a Time of Peace is a “younger sibling,” he says, to The Best and the Brightest (1972), his renowned account of the men who led the U.S. into the war in Vietnam. After covering the early civil rights movement and reporting in the field from Vietnam—for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1964—Halberstam left the New York Times in 1967 and began to write books full-time two years later...
...While Halberstam nicely wraps up the stories of the characters he has been following throughout the book in the final chapter, the ending still seems somewhat abrupt. After explaining in exhaustive detail the course of American foreign policy—and domestic presidential politics—over the past decade, he is content to devote his final page to a rushed rundown of President George W. Bush’s first few months in office. The conclusion is not so much an ending as an added segment in a continuing story, but it has, in the aftermath of Sept...
...David Halberstam...