PAT TELLS IT LIKE IT IS

It's so wonderful to hear a politician who, actually, has something constructive and sensible to say as opposed to the nitwit, goof balls running around the country pretending to be politicians.



 

det said...

So much of this is what George Kennan was saying in the 1940s and 1950s, in the wake of WWII, as he was formulating the US Cold War policy of containment of the Soviet Union. Military action was a very last resort. Eisenhower appreciated Kennan--both warned of a "military-industrial complex," which, sadly, has indeed become predominant, and has made our overseas military engagements perpetual. Nor did Kennan look well on trying to recreate American democracies elsewhere. I repeat a favorite Kennan quote going back to 1821, when J.Q. Adams said the US should not be going abroad in search of monsters. This is the eternal question in our history: how much do we need to do to protect ourselves? There seems to be no one lasting answer.

Mar 11, 2012 1:04:00 PM