He has served as a foreign-service officer and a Senate staff member and is now professor of international relations at Boston University and vice-chairman of the U.S. Army War College Board of Visitors.(While We're At It)

First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, March, 2008 by Neuhaus, Richard John

He has served as a foreign-service officer and a Senate staff member and is now professor of international relations at Boston University and vice-chairman of the U.S. Army War College Board of Visitors. So I expect he has given the matter some serious thought and knows what he is talking about.

His observations reinforce the analysis offered by another foreign-service veteran, Thomas Farr, in "The Diplomacy of Religious Freedom" (May 2006). Angelo M. Codevilla writes in the Claremont Review that indifference to religion is one source of America's problems in Iraq and elsewhere. "Because the U.S. foreign policy establishment is religiously illiterate, because none of its members can imagine serious people taking God seriously, it cannot understand a world that is...

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