The Superpower Blues - washingtonpost.com

The Superpower Blues - washingtonpost.com: "FOREIGN AFFAIRS STRATEGY The Superpower Blues Zbigniew Brzezinski says we have one last shot at getting the post-9/11 world right. Reviewed by James M. Lindsay Sunday, March 25, 2007; Page BW02 SECOND CHANCE Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower By Zbigniew Brzezinski Basic. 234 pp. $26.95 The Iraq war has America's foreign policy mavens waxing nostalgic. Partisans of the elder George Bush long for the days when realism and caution reigned in the White House. Bill Clinton's fans fondly recall an era when presidential trips overseas drew admiring crowds rather than angry protesters. U.S. foreign policy, it would seem, should go forward by going backward. Zbigniew Brzezinski will have none of that. In his engaging and briskly argued new book, Jimmy Carter's national security adviser sees little worth emulating in the past 15 years of U.S. foreign policy. He asks how Washington has led since becoming the world's first truly global leader after the collapse of the Soviet Union. His answer? 'In a word, badly.'"