Making War to Keep Peace (54 page)

JEANE J. KIRKPATRICK
was the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 1981 to 1985 and a member of the National Security Council during the Reagan administratiion. She was also a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, the founder of Empower America, and a professor of government at Georgetown University. She died in December 2006.

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“As one of the most thoughtful of Ronald Reagan's foreign policy advisors, Jeane Kirkpatrick recognized that it is not only important to know our history, but crucial to understand the lessons of that history in order to formulate a wise foreign policy course. Leading the reader through U.S. incursions in Kuwait, Somalia, Haiti, the Balkans, Kosovo and finally Afghanistan and Iraq, Kirkpatrick explains how and when the use of military force is justified and when it is not.
Making War to Keep Peace
is a must-read for those who not only want to know what those incursions were all about, but also who want to understand the lessons learned—and not learned.”

—ALFRED S. REGNERY,
publisher,
The American Spectator

“A brilliant valedictory to a brilliant life and career. Ambassador Kirkpatrick examines U.S. foreign policy and argues, convincingly, that America must balance the twin goals of preserving national security and advancing democratic principles while looking to the ‘prescient principles' of the Reagan Doctrine for a realistic determination of the national interest.”

—DR. EDWIN J. FEULNER,
president of the Heritage Foundation

“We are fortunate to have this new collection of her strategic reflections—including important and surprising reflections on the Iraq war. It is heartening to know that she will now teach the future as she once taught the past.”

—JOHN O'SULLIVAN,
author of
The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister

“Jeane Kirkpatrick teaches that many of the world's regimes, cultures, and elites do not want peace with us, and hence that we must earn peace by winning wars. To know war's proper targets, statesmen must rely on intelligence in the ordinary meaning of the word. Jeane Kirkpatrick embodied that intelligence.”

—ANGELO M. CODEVILLA,
professor of international relations, Boston University, and author of
Informing Statecraft: Intelligence for a New Century
and
The Character of Nations

“With clear and compelling argument, Jeane Kirkpatrick teaches us to be strong but careful in the use of force. Readable and instructive, as she always is.”

—GEORGE P. SCHULTZ,
former secretary of state

“How fine to have more of Jeane Kirkpatrick so nicely available in this new book. She was unique when alive, and this book establishes that she is still alive.”

—WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR.,
founder,
National Review

“After an outstanding career in education and government service, Jeane Kirkpatrick has written a brilliant book that applies her exceptional knowledge of history to an analysis of the new geopolitical situation in the post–Cold War world. Her insightful examination of the conflicts that have occurred during the past two decades shows how understanding the past can improve our nation's ability to develop effective policies for the future.”

—EDWIN MEESE III,
former U.S. attorney general and Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow in Public Policy, The Heritage Foundation

“Jeane Kirkpatrick's legacy as scholar and diplomat is further enhanced by this vital new study,
Making War to Keep Peace.
It is an honest and penetrating analysis of the huge penalties nations will pay when the courage to do what must be done is lacking, and when flawed strategies are not revised. She cautions us to ‘unflinchingly acknowledge our mistakes as well as celebrate our successes' and ‘learn from both.' Trenchant and fearless in her analysis, Jeane Kirkpatrick does not hesitate to assign blame for policy failures. It was this fundamental honesty that made her such a valuable advisor to presidents.”

—RICHARD V. ALLEN,
former national security advisor

"In her unflinching search for truth, Jeane Kirkpatrick can never be considered a traditional ‘conservative Republican' or even a ‘liberal Democrat' as we use the terms today. Kirkpatrick's willingness to speak the truth in the world of power was her signature—until the last days of her life, and even now in this book. In the 1970s she published in
Commentary
her groundbreaking article ‘Dictatorship and Double Standards,' severing ties with her Democratic background at profound personal loss. This single article alone has had historic impact on the world for the decades…. Armed with her words and straight talk, Kirkpatrick's work at the UN earned her the accolade from Mikhail Gorbachev as ‘the most dangerous woman in the world.' Here, in
Making War to Keep Peace,
Kirkpatrick challenges leaders to be willing to make war—but to remember the price of keeping peace before and after war is waged. She instructs how to exercise might—and restraint—in perilous and often-misguided efforts in peacekeeping and nation building. Kirkpatrick helped Ronald Reagan exercise the moral authority that brought down the Berlin Wall and Iron Curtain without firing a single shot. Now she has delivered us another historic work with a worldview which, as it was through her life, will be revered by many, even if its advice is considered too costly to be dared by more than a few.”

—JACK KEMP,
former U. S. representative and secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Right versus Might

The Withering Away of the Totalitarian State…and Other Surprises

Legitimacy and Force

The Reagan Phenomenon

Dictatorships and Double Standards

Dismantling the Parties

The New Presidential Elite

Political Woman

Leader and Vanguard

Jacket design by Richard Ljoenes

Front jacket photograph: “JJK: Last Day at the State ,Department, 1985” by Allan Gerson

MAKING WAR TO KEEP PEACE
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ePub edition April 2007 ISBN 9780061747229

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