by Adib Rashad ~
The years between the Civil War and the war with Spain witnessed a
profound turning point in American foreign policy. Those years
transformed the traditions of the Central American missions policy to a
new state of affairs, and anticolonialism as an issue of concern was
relegated to immateriality.
The first of these traditions had been drastically transformed, if not
destroyed, by the doctrine called the Manifest Destiny.
Before the Civil War, many Americans had proclaimed thi
By FOUAD AJAMI
On Nov. 6, 1956, Election Day, to be precise, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent a brief message to British Prime Minister Anthony Eden: "We have given our whole thought to Hungary and the Middle East. I don't give a damn how the election goes."
Eisenhower could afford that kind of attitude—he was a genuine American hero in World War II, and there was no chance of his losing his bid for a second term to the inconsequential Adlai Stevens





