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At TPMCafe today, America Abroad’s G. John Ikenberry considers US foreign policy on the 69th anniversary of Kennan’s “Long Telegram,” while Ivo Daalder weighs on Frank Fukuyama’s NYT Magazine piece and foreign policy after neoconservatism. Nathan Newman explains why progressives should pay more attention to state politics, and Warren Reports’ Elizabeth Warren looks at the risks and costs of obtaining a college education. Matt Yglesias writes about Israel and Nato, and readers are also talking about Condi and state reactions to the Kelo Decision.
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I read the Fukuyama piece, and the Sullivan piece, and had yet another attack of amazement. It's not as though these guys have been living in an ashram for the last four years that they didn't have access to the same information so many of us out here did - in fact much more of it. Didn't they ever wonder why so much of the rest of the world was dead-set against the pre-emptive invasion of Iraq? I mean, where's the surprise. There lies the trouble with ideologues. The idea blinds and deafens them. At lease Sullivan apologized.
February 21, 2006 1:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Pat Lang brilliantly takes apart the Fukuyama piece. The poster child for The Weekly Standard gets slapped down in a manner befitting. http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2006/02/so_it_wasnt_the.html#comment-14233943 Repetition does not tranform a lie into a truth. FDR
February 22, 2006 6:27 AM | Reply | Permalink