The November issue of COMMENTARY features a symposium of 36 writers evaluating the Bush Doctrine of pre-empting threats before they emerge and actively promoting liberty in the Middle East. The writers are:
Paul Berman, Max Boot, William F. Buckley, Jr., Eliot A. Cohen, Niall Ferguson, Aaron L. Friedberg, Francis Fukuyama, Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., Reuel Marc Gerecht, Victor Davis Hanson, Owen Harries, Mark Helprin, Daniel Henninger, Stanley Hoffmann, Josef Joffe, Paul Johnson, Robert Kagan, William Kristol, Robert J. Lieber, Richard Lowry, Edward N. Luttwak, Joshua Muravchik, John O’Sullivan, Martin Peretz, Richard Perle, Daniel Pipes, Richard Pipes, Norman Podhoretz, David Pryce-Jones, Arch Puddington, Natan Sharansky, Amir Taheri, Ruth Wedgwood, George Weigel, James Q. Wilson and R. James Woolsey.
The contributions run from optimistic (Sharansky) to realistic (VDH) to pessimistic (Helprin), with particularly noteworthy contributions by Paul Johnson, Richard Pipes and Norman Podhoretz, among others.