[Williams]

I seem to remember both Eisenhower and Kennedy authorizing the bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. Had Kennedy succeeded then, the missile crisis might never have happened.

Israel preempted Sadaam's nuclear program, no disaster resulted.

Reagan bombed Libya, Bush invaded Afghan and Iraq, and one result was Quaddafi abandoned his nuclear program.

Reagan invaded Grenada. Schlesinger sure put his historical knowledge on "selective".

[Zeppo]

The only things necessary for evil to triumph in this world are pompous fools like Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

In February 1848 Rep. Abraham Lincoln explained his opposition to the Mexican War...blah blah blah.

Methinks that Arthur is smoking crack again. The Mexicans were threatening to use nuclear weapons in 1848?

[Recovering_Democrat]

Schlesinger can shove it. We're already at war with facist Islamicists, and have been since '93 when Bill Clinton started his eight years of being a pansy when it comes to fighting terrorism.

WE began fighting the war in October of 2001. I couldn't care less what Arthur "thinks". He's a liberal with a typewriter and a publisher, nothing more.

Keep fighting the libs and the terrorists, G.W. I don't always agree with your policies and your methods, but I know you wanna wipe 'em out. Your counterparts in the body politic want to pretend like this is a negotiable game...and they'll follow Neville Chamberlain until the enemy kills 'em.

[TalBlack]

Schlesinger posits the President not as an executive but as a strong-man.

A president has powers but he must justify their use to reasonable people.