"... Based on the same precautionary principle, the administration bombed Iraq a few months later, even though there was no hard proof that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.

And they were perfectly right to do so. Just as Bush was right to finally end Hussein's nightmarish reign."

• Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
• Contributing Editor, Weekly Standard
• Foreign Affairs Columnist, Los Angeles Times
• Regular contributer to the New York Times, Washington Post, and Foreign Affairs

• M.A., Yale University, 1992
• B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1991

• 1997-2002 - Features Editor, Wall Street Journal
• 1994-1997 - Writer and Editor, Wall Street Journal
• 1992-1994 - Writer and Editor, Christian Science Monitor

Awards received:

• Named one of “the 500 most influential people in the United States in the field of foreign policy,” World Affairs Councils of America, 2004
• Wallace M. Greene Award, 2003
• Savage Wars of Peace selected as one of the best books by the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and Christian Science Monitor, 2002
• Two-time finalist, Gerald A. Loeb Award for Business Journalism

• "Battle for Baghdad; Lessons Learned From the War in Iraq," The Weekly Standard, 08/29/06
• War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History: 1500 to Today, Gotham, 2006
• The "American Empire" In The Middle East, Berkeley: Berkeley Public Policy Press, 2004
• The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power, Basic Books, 2003