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FOREIGN POLICY & DEFENSE
whose commitments exceed their armed strength usually experience vigor- ous domestic opposition to any ambitious new foreign policy initiatives.
Since the 1960s, argues Huntington, director of Harvard's Center for International Affairs, the United States has suffered from a "Lippmann gapw-its responsibilities extend beyond its military reach. For example, the Carter Doctrine of 1980, which committed Washington to keeping the Persian Gulf area free of...