An excellent status report by Michael Barone: how well has the Bush administration followed the National Security Strategy of 2002?
Three and a half years ago, in September 2002, the Bush administration issued its National Security Strategy. It was, as Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis has written, “the most fundamental reassessment of American grand strategy in over half a century,” since Harry Truman set America on its course in the Cold War. Today a consensus seems to be rising that the Bush administration is veering off the course it set then. Gerard Baker in the Times of London writes that the days of American military intervention are over. Reporters write that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has shoved aside neoconservatives and taken her stand with State Department professionals. It’s not a bad time, then, to look back at the National Security Strategy, to see how it has fared.
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