The Failure of Engagement

The Failure of Engagement

Nearly a half-century of American diplomacy has failed to restrain rogue regimes. Those regimes — or “states of concern,” as former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright preferred to call them — include familiar adversaries such as Iran, as well as nominal allies like Pakistan. Whether cast as rogues, outcasts or pariahs, such regimes seem to have three things in common: deep antipathy toward the United States, unwavering determination to acquire weapons of mass destruction and a stark willingness to support terrorism.

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