May 29, 2006

This issue examined two critical foreign policy challenges facing the Bush administration in mid-2006. Hillel Fradkin analyzed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's worldview and implications for U.S. diplomacy in Washington, while Frederick W. Kagan offered strategic analysis on achieving victory in Iraq as the war continued into its fourth year. The magazine addressed America's complex position in the Middle East amid rising tensions with Iran and ongoing military operations in Iraq.