Good article.
This part jumped out at me:
“Critics warned that Truman would weaken the Constitution, militarize U.S. foreign policy, and destroy the UN. Truman’s doctrine wasn’t a ready-made road map for waging the Cold War, according to Leebaert. Instead, the Cold War’s first four years — which coincided with Truman’s first four years as president — “were filled with starts and stops rather than any considered policy or long-range goals.” The result: “a patched-together postwar order.”
Sound familiar? Replace Truman with Bush and “cold war” with “war on islamism”. Someone someday is going to get around to writing a comparison of the first president to proactively deal with cold war and the first president to proactively deal with the war on islamism.