Tom Switzer

Foreign Policy Begins at Home, by Richard N. Haass – review

An all-too-familar ritual: Pakistanis protest against US drone attacks on the northwestern tribal belt, January 2013. Getty Images | Shutterstock | iStock | Alamy

A year or so after the ‘liberation’ of Iraq, an unnamed senior Bush administration official (later revealed to be Karl Rove) boasted: ‘We are an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.’ Yet a decade later, America’s power and influence has diminished considerably and the American people are suffering from foreign policy fatigue.

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