Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal (2004)

I can only hope, should I live that long, I'm this on the ball when I'm 98...

Jane Mayer. The Talk of the Town: “A Doctrine Passes.” New Yorker, October 14, 2002.

The apparently imminent use of American armed forces to drive Saddam Hussein from power, from what I know of our government's state of preparedness for such an involvement, seems to me well out of proportion to the dangers involved. I have seen no evidence that we have any realistic plans for dealing with the great state of confusion in Iraqian affairs which would presumably follow even after the successful elimination of the dictator.... I, of course, am not well informed. But I fear that any attempt on our part to confront that latent situation by military means alone could easily serve to aggravate it rather than alleviate it.

Thanks for the link, Brad.

I have to say that as a Canadian, I find George Kennan a much more appealing representative of US foreign policy than George Bush.

Russil Wvong:

Kennan was forced out of the State Dept. when the Dulles brothers took over.

As an American, I find George Kennan a much more appealing representative of US foreign policy than George Bush. As a human being, I find George Kennan a much more appealing representative of US foreign policy than George Bush. As a sophont, I find George Kennan a much more appealing representative of US foreign policy than George Bush.

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