THE END OF EMPIRE: THE WAR IN IRAQ WAS SUPPOSED TO LAUNCH A BOLD NEW AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY. BUT HAS THE NEOCONSERVATIVES' GRANDIOSE DREAM ENDED BEFORE IT BEGAN? - DAVID RIEFF (MOTHER JONES, MAY/JUNE): With the doctrine of pre-emptive war, the Bush administration went far beyond the utopian credos of America's founders -- or even of Wilson, Roosevelt, and Reagan. It is, fundamentally, a doctrine of endless war.
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