Jeffrey Bergner is a foreign policy analyst and author who contributed to The Weekly Standard on international affairs topics, including Iran policy and European governance. He served as Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs during the George W. Bush administration and has written extensively on U.S. foreign policy and political philosophy.
As Europe is rocked by the Greek financial crisis, which seems likely to spread to additional European states, it may be worth asking why anyone would see in European politics a model for the United States. Yet this is exactly the position of America’s political left, which looks approvingly at…
DURING HIS RECENT TRIP TO Europe, President Bush sent mixed signals about U.S. policy with regard to Iran's development of nuclear weapons. At one point he dismissed the prospect of military action as ridiculous; immediately after, he emphasized all options were on the table; then at another point…