The Past and Future of American Grand Strategy [Bush critic gets it]

Chapomatic and Ten O'Clock Scholar ^ | May 16, 2005 | Professor John Gaddis

[woofie]

ditto

[raivyn]

Long, but good! Nice to see some intellectual honesty amongst the "intellectual" crowd!

[dead]

read later

[baseballmom]

Thank you so much for the ping. I have not read such a great article in a long time.

As another poster said, this is the kind of discussion we should be having vis a vis Bush's policies, and the Grand Strategy of our nation.

Too often, and I know I'm mostly preaching to the choir here, the level of rhetoric has descended into the Bush is stupid realm. It adds nothing to the discussion.

I, too, was so moved and excited by GW's second inaugural address. This, to me, was and is, what our country is all about.

No, he is not perfect. Mistakes have been made, but he seems willing to adjust his course and keep moving towards the big prize. Freedom from terror. A worthy goal.

Pinging to those who I think will enjoy a great read, and please ping your lists.

[glorgau]

It probably also helped a great deal that Bush said he read his book and asked for his views. Bush could pay the man no greater complement.

[Dilbert56]

Even more pathetic is Newsweak's supporters tellig us that the allegation "fit a pattern" of stories coming out of Gitmo. The word of Taliban and AlQaida is taken as gospel (sorry, didn't mean to insult anyone's religion - don't go killing anyone).

Question: I have a Koran I picked up at a used book sale at our local University. To make sure it wasn't resold, about a third of the front cover was cut off. Is there someone I'm supposed to kill for this?

[Tolik]

Smart move for somebody so stupid </sarcasm>

[Tarantulas]

Outstanding article. I didn't get the reference to "Spiderman," though. Is he talking about Spider-Man from the comics and cartoons, or someone whose nickname is "Spiderman?"

Another question - is this guy respected and quoted among the lefties? Or did he pull a Dennis Miller and switch sides?

[Tolik]

"fit a pattern" -- False but accurate!!

Lenin: "There is no press that is not partisan. All media is partisan"

Agitprop...

[CaptRon]

Which raises the question of why the Clinton administration signed onto them [Kyoto] in the first place.

Come on professor, don't let your ideology blind you to this when you were doins so well.

Clinton signed onto Kyoto knowing full well it would never pass the Senate. But he didn't care. He could look like a greenie and not have to bear any of the consequences.

Deep down I think you know that Prof. Gaddis.

[FreedomPoster]

Just don't desecrate your plumbing with it; Roto-Rooter is expensive.

[FreedomPoster]

>>Is he talking about Spider-Man from the comics and cartoons

Yes.

[Tolik]

Yes, its Spider-Man from the comics.

Prof. Gaddis is from Yale. I think his credentials are as good as they get.

Looks like he is capable of keeping his mind open. Great!

 

John Lewis Gaddis Robert A. Lovett Professor of History   Professor Gaddis, who received his PhD from the University of Texas in 1968, has published numerous books, including: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947 (1972); Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security (1982); The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War (1987); We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (1997); The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past (2002); and Surprise, Security, and the American Experience (2004). Professor Gaddis teaches courses in Cold War history, grand strategy, international studies, and biography.     john.gaddis@yale.edu

[gridlock]

Long Read Bump for Later

[Sergio]

Outstanding read. I have always respected liberals who debate with facts rather than with emotion.

Thanks for a very quotable post.

Best Regards

Sergio

[rdb3]

Rarely do I read such a long piece on a flatscreen, but this one held my interest until the very end. Kudos to you for sharing it with us, Tolik.

[rattrap]

Very good article, thanks for posting it.

[Jim Noble]

That’s why I found it so frustrating, at noon on Inauguration Day, to find that nobody in the Yale History Department had the speech on as it was being delivered

Incredible.

[metesky]

Very good article. A thinking liberal with the guts to lay his thoughts on the table. His fellow academics must be wild.

[El Gato]

It was Lincoln who suspended the right of habeus corpus during the Civil War

I'm no great fan of Lincoln, but the Constitution explicitly provides for doing this, "when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it". Lincoln, and most of the rest of the rump United States, considered the southern states to be in Rebellion. Whether the public Safety required it, is I suppose, a separate question.