In doing so (and in speaking out, after a fashion, against America’s forever wars of this century), he grasped, in his own strange way, the inheritance that the post-Cold War Washington establishment had left both him and the rest of the country. . ..…

Despite the end of Cold War, U.S armed services have spent much of the century engaged in combat. At Washington should be pursuing policy of peace, policymakers are preparing to join in. ..…