David sanger the inheritance
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The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power
David sanger the inheritance
It’s a difficult subject to address without criticizing Bush, and Sanger pulls no punches, but it’s really about what Obama will face. As such, it was an excellent primer on foreign policy when I originally read it shortly after the election.
I believe it remains valuable today. Sanger, pointedly avoiding Iraq, identifies five countries as the greatest challenges to the US: Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, North Korea, and China (it is not by accident he avoids Iraq, Sanger sees its greatest cost as one of opportunity).
Other countries remain troublesome (notably, Russia and Venezuela; more recently, Mexico), but I think these are still our five greatest threats.
Three years later Sanger’s work still holds. Iran continues to press forward in its nuclear ambitions while the US balks at Is