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August 30, 2012

Where Have all the Wise Men Gone?

Morton Abramowitz, The National Interest

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All our great appointed foreign-policy officials left the stage some twenty years ago. The aged Henry Kissinger is still far more interesting than any of today’s officials. No one has entered that pantheon since the end of the Cold War—and we are not likely to see their ilk dominating U.S. foreign policy again.

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