NEWSWEEK International Editions: Highlights and Exclusives, August 18-25 2008 Double Issue

Aug. 10 NY-Nwswk-internat'l COVER: What Bush Got Right (All overseas editions). Newsweek International Editor Fareed Zakaria examines the Bush administration's successes in American foreign policy, while also noting its failures. "Bush's basic conception of a 'global War on Terror,' to take but the most obvious example, has been poorly thought-through, badly implemented, and has produced many unintended costs that will linger for years if not decades. But blanket criticism of Bush misses an important reality." He writes that for "whatever reasons and through whichever path, the foreign policies in place now are more sensible, moderate and mainstream. In many cases the next president should follow rather than reverse them." He writes that the foreign policies that aroused the greatest anger and opposition were mostly pursued... [read full story]