NEWSWEEK: International Editions: Highlights and Exclusives, July 21, 2008 Issue

NEWSWEEK: International Editions: Highlights and Exclusives, July 21, 2008 Issue COVER: The U.S. Doesn't Need A War President (All overseas editions). In this second annual "What You Need To Know Now" special report, Newsweek International Editor Fareed Zakaria opens with an essay about whether the next U.S. president should be a war president. "We are in a struggle against Islamic extremism, but it is more like the cold war than a hot war -- a long, mostly peacetime challenge in which a leader must be willing to use military power but also know when not to do so," Zakaria writes. He calls Dwight Eisenhower the wisest American president during the cold war, and his greatest virtues were those of balance, judgment and restraint. "In a sense, the warriors are pessimists," he writes. "In the old days they were scared that... [read full story]