Our Foreign Policy Dilemma
There’s no question that the George W. Bush Administration favored an aggressive foreign policy, charging into Afghanistan and Iraq following the 9/11 tragedy. Conversely, President Barack Obama’s foreign policy resume in the last seven-plus years has been passive, hesitant and almost non-existent, as evidenced in confrontations with Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and Russia’s Vladimir Putin. But is there a middle ground in foreign policy for the United States? Bret Stephens, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Wall Street Journal says, “Yes, and New York City is a model” in this edition of Prager University.
