When the neocons wanted to ‘go all the way to Baghdad’ after 1991 war
H.W. Bush instead showed restraint. His son, a decade later, did not. There are lessons for our next steps with Putin here.
Daniel McCarthy is vice president for the Collegiate Network at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and editor of ISI’s journal Modern Age: A Conservative Review. Previously, he was director of the Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Program at The Fund for American Studies, and editor of The American Conservative magazine. In addition to contributing regularly to The Spectator, he has also appeared in the New York Times, USA Today, The National Interest, First Things, Reason, and a wide range of other publications.
H.W. Bush instead showed restraint. His son, a decade later, did not. There are lessons for our next steps with Putin here.