Where is the serious foreign policy debate?

[Bill Moore]

Actually quite a bit of this looks very similar to pre-Cold War foreign policy discussions (when they took place). There was, after all, history before the Cold War. The US had a tendency to drift between isolation of some sort and what might be called "benevolent imperialism."

Steve,

Any recommended reads that addresses pre-Cold War foreign policy? I find it sadly humorous that many think we need to return to a containment strategy, because it is the only seemingly coherent strategy they're familiar with. We obviously had a foreign policy and strategy prior to the Cold War, and I bet there are lessons from that period germane to today.