The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.
Michael MandelbaumAfter all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.
Michael MandelbaumThe war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.
Michael MandelbaumTo call the American role in the world imperial was, for many who did so, a way of asserting that the United States was misusing its power beyond its borders and, in so doing, subverting its founding political principles within them.
Michael Mandelbaum