The Foreign Service Journal, December 2003

Lieutenant General Wesley Clark, director of plans and policy at the Pentagon at the time, was no better informed. Once he reportedly asked his staff, “Is it Hutu and Tutsi or Tutu and Hutsi?” In the final analysis, this reviewer believes that U.S. foreign policy in the “Age of Genocide” reflects a bat- tle between the schools of “realpoli- tik” and “moralpolitik.” The first approach views the mass murder of a people because of who they are through the prism of how it will affect our next national election. The other considers how our reaction (or lack thereof) to such evil will be viewed by humanity in the years to come. We must be grateful to Samantha Power for so vividly and elegantly pointing us to the road less traveled that leads to a moral foreign policy. Peter F. Spalding is a retired Senior Foreign Service officer who served in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Stalin’s Legacy Gulag: A History Anne Applebaum, Doubleday, 2003, $35.00, hardcover, 736 pages. Stalin’s Last Crime: The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors, 1948-1953 Jonathan Brent and Vladimir P. Naumov, Harper Collins, $26.95, hardcover, 399 pages. R EVIEWED BY B EN J USTESEN Fifty years after Josef Stalin’s death, his legacy continues to fascinate and horrify Western readers, even as Russian admirers pine for the long-lost days of order. These two books con- 74 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / D E C E M B E R 2 0 0 3 B O O K S