WILLIAM APPLEMAN WILLIAM was a distinguished professor of American history at the University of Wisconsin. LLOYD C. GARDNER is Charles and Mary Beard Professor of History at Rutgers University and the author of The Long Road to Baghdad: A History of U.S. Foreign Policy from the 1970s to the Present. ANDREW J. BACEVICHis professor of international relations and history at Boston University and the author of The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism.