US Foreign Policy Deficit
Posted on | June 26, 2010 | No Comments
….it was the same in the 1960s. There were a few voices in Washington who asked awkward questions, but in the main there was no public debate about the wisdom — never mind the ethics or the feasability — of the war in Southeast Asia. And so the killing continued until — eventually — the US bowed to the inevitable and scuttled.
John Naughton on the striking similarities between the USA’s prosecution of the war in Afghanistan and their conduct during the war in Vietnam in the ’60s and ’70s.
I heard an American colleague, a former military man, say (and I paraphrase):
Our problem is we do not have a foreign policy; all we have is a powerful military….
Andrew Sullivan, in his column in The Atlantic, quoted by John in his post, says much the same thing:
One suspects there is simply no stopping this war machine….
One suspects he may be right.
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