He was accused of ceding too much ground to allies in Libya, but this week’s events show he’s FDR’s heir.
Steven Casey is reader in international history at the London School of Economics. He is the author of Cautious Crusade: Franklin D. Roosevelt, American Public Opinion, and the War against Nazi Germany (2001), and Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion (2008), which won the 2010 Truman Book Award. He is currently completing a new book, When Soldiers Fall: How Americans have Debated Combat Losses from World War I to Afghanistan, to be published by Oxford University Press.