Does America lack capacity for entanglements abroad?

That question keeps coming up. The young Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville thought 170 years ago that the answer is yes. He wrote that America by nature was an isolationist creature. For a more recent take, see today’s post by Joerg Wolf, a German Fulbright alumni, in the Atlantic Review. Wolf comments on a recent WSJ op-ed piece by DC lawyer David Rivkin, “Diplomacy in the Post-9/11 Era“. Both are excellent. If your firm works abroad–or will be–read them.