the real question
The Boston Globe
60 years of faulty logic
By James Carroll | March 12, 2007
"SIXTY YEARS AGO today, Harry Truman went before a joint session of Congress to announce what became known as the Truman Doctrine. "At the present moment in world history, nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life." With that, an era of bipolarity was inaugurated, dividing the world between forces of good and evil.
The speech amounted, as one of Truman's advisers characterized it, to a declaration of religious war. In the transcendent struggle between Moscow and Washington, "nonalignment" was not an option. Truman declared that the United States would actively support "free" people anywhere who were resisting either internal or external threats to that freedom. The "free world" was born, but so, eventually, were disastrous wars in Korea and Vietnam..."
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3 comments:
Read it soon. The Boston Globe links suffer from bit rot...
If memory serves me correctly, George Bush jr. has expressed his admiration for Harry Truman on more than one occasion. Now we know why.
many people admire him: selectively.
and that is as it should be. no one is perfect.
but what is telling, is what people admire someone for.
but, this was a good article. kind of lays out the really damaged core for all to behold.
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