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Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Age of Politics, Continued -- I. The Transcendent Questions -- 1. Virtue versus Freedom: Allies or Antagonists? -- 2. God and the Economy: Is Capitalism Moral? -- 3. Should Christians Be Statists? -- 4. Libertarians and Christians in a Hostile World -- II. Abortion: The Irreconcilable Conflict -- 5. The Real Meaning of Choice -- 6. From Pro-Choice to Pro-Coercion -- 7. The Escalating Abortion Wars -- III . Earth Keeping or Earth Worship? -- 8. Ecology as Religion: Faith in Place of Fact -- 9. Environmentalism: The Triumph of Politics -- IV. Republic or Empire: The New Wilsonism -- 10. Keep the Troops and the Money at Home -- 11. The Pitfalls of Collective Security -- V. International Debt or Development? -- 12. The Misdeeds of International Aid -- 13. World Bank: Servant of Governments, Not Peoples -- VI. The Regulatory State -- 14. America's Regulatory Dirty Dozen -- 15. Whither Health Care in the Age of Clinton? -- 16. The Pharmaceutical Industry: Problem or Solution? -- 17. National Service: Utopias Revisited -- 18. Real Welfare Reform: An Idea Whose Time Has Come -- 19. War on Drugs or America? -- VII. Redistribution without End -- 20. Still Paying for Government -- 21. The Decade of Envy -- 22. Not Theirs to Give -- 23. Tax Fairness, Clinton-Style -- 24. The New Democrats: Spend and Tax, Rather than Tax and Spend -- 25. A Coast-to-Coast Federal Dole -- 26. The Time of the Political Locusts -- 27. The NEA: They Still Don't Get It -- Index

ch. 1 Foreign policy -- ch. 2 The impact on a free society -- ch. 3 Terrorism -- ch. 4 Humanitarian intervention -- ch. 5 Asia -- ch. 6 The Balkans -- ch. 7 Europe -- ch. 8 The Mideast -- ch. 9 Iraq -- ch. 10 Religious freedom -- ch. 11 Who serves? -- ch. 12 Who declares war?

For the past decade, the United States has been promoting national transformation in the Balkans. In pushing the independence of Kosovo, Washington policy makers apparently believed that Serbia would acquiesce, most nations would recognize the newest independent state, and Russia would accept America's decision. None of these assumptions came to pass. Unfortunately, the war in the Caucasus was an inadvertent consequence of US policy in the Balkans. The West acted contrary to international law, violated the sovereignty of another state, and carelessly sacrificed the interests of neighboring states. The point is not that Russia acted correctly or legitimately in Georgia but that American policy makers must learn that actions have consequences, even actions by the US government. They need look no further than from Kosovo to Georgia.