Responses: Susan George

Stanley Hoffmann’s title “What Should U.S. Foreign Policy Be?” confines him to writing a prescriptive piece and far be it from me to fault an author for not doing what he didn’t set out to do. Still, I found myself wishing he had taken more than six lines to examine what American foreign policy actually is, as a rough guide to both the present and the future.

Hoffmann sums up the status quo as (1) an economic policy geared to blasting open markets, (2) a dodgy r...