The star-spangled delusion
Asia Times
by David Young
02/16/08
Since the end of World War II, no US administration has indulged American idealism to the degree — and with the recklessness — that President George W Bush has. Previous presidents were better able to balance our raw idealism with our realist objectives, even though they often spoke the language of morality to the American people — telling us that we were the planet’s moral beacon — while quietly ensuring that our impulses be checked by a cold dose of caution and realism. For better or worse, it was inevitable that our own idealism (or more cynically, our self-righteousness) would lead us to overreach...
http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JB16Ak03.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by David Young
02/16/08
Since the end of World War II, no US administration has indulged American idealism to the degree — and with the recklessness — that President George W Bush has. Previous presidents were better able to balance our raw idealism with our realist objectives, even though they often spoke the language of morality to the American people — telling us that we were the planet’s moral beacon — while quietly ensuring that our impulses be checked by a cold dose of caution and realism. For better or worse, it was inevitable that our own idealism (or more cynically, our self-righteousness) would lead us to overreach...
http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JB16Ak03.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 18. Feb, 13:37
