A Block: Doomed To Repeat The Rewritten Past?

The New York Times told readers that Henry Kissenger’s World Order is “a book that every member of Congress should be locked in a room with — and forced to read before taking the oath of office.” But is our 56th Secretary of State trying to rewrite history?

David Adesnik, AEI’s visiting fellow at the Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies, puts a thorough end to the love fest over Kissenger’s latest book writing for the Free Beacon, “Kissenger’s aggressive reshaping of the past has escaped public notice.” Adesnik’s critique did not escape the notice of Ricochet’s Foreign Affairs team and we enjoyed a long conversation with him about Kissenger’s book and the history of American foreign policy.

B Block: Does The War of The Week Need a Weather Czar?

One of our regular panelists, Aaron Maclean, writes this week that the Defense Department declared war on the weather. How will this new front be fought? Will American military decisions be clouded by … clouds?

Read the roadmap and join the conversation below. Seriously, it’s called the 2014 Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap. Don’t forget to check out the back cover.

C Block: WMDs, Found ‘Em!

The New York Times reports there Saddam Hussein had WMD’s in Iraq. But Bush still lied and people died, right? If only we knew who refused to tell the world we found WMDs in Iraq.

Oh, and Venezuela will be on the United Nations Security Council starting in January. What’s the worst thing that could happen?