The National Interest

The National Interest

Fall 2005

Comments & Responses

by Pat Roberts, John J. Mearsheimer, & Geoffrey Peter Hugh Loane

 

Intelligence Reform
Not long ago, during one of the many terrorism alerts we have endured in Washington, it was made clear that even on matters related to the terrorist threat to the U.S. homeland, our intelligence agencies still refuse to share information. Two important intelligence agencies had different assessments concerning the seriousness of a particular terrorist threat. These differing assessments came about not because of different tradecraft or aggressive alternative analysis, but because one of the agencies did not have access to all the relevant information concerning that threat....
Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS)

Realism is Right
Last year, in delivering a lecture on the centenary of Hans Morgenthau's birth at the BMW Stiftung Herbert Quandt, I addressed the question of what position Morgenthau would have taken on the Iraq War....
John J. Mearsheimer

Debating the Red Cross
In "Double-Red-Crossed" (Spring 2005), Lee A. Casey and David B. Rivkin, Jr. challenge the effectiveness of the work of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), particularly in relation to the United States....
Geoffrey Peter Hugh Loane

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