Neil Howe: 'Civil War Is More Likely Than People Think'

[Warren Dew]

(11-22-2016, 05:09 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: One thing that we all must say of the Cold Warriors from Truman to Obama: they didn't appease, and (the atom bomb blasts on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not part of the Cold War), there were no atomic bomb blasts on any cities. Seventy years? That;s a good record.  I'll take that over a peace-love-and-dope foreign policy, Bomb! Bomb! Bomb! Bomb-bomb Iran!, or appeasement.  

I supported Hillary Clinton and I ended up defending the Reagan-Bush I foreign policy that Obama took by default.

Cold warriors didn't appease?  While Kennedy was making a big deal of objecting to Russian IRBMs in Cuba, he was quietly removing U.S. IRBMs from Turkey.  We were definitely realistic at times about what might be achieved, and when we weren't we got into messes like Vietnam.

Obama took the younger Bush's foreign policy.  He tripled the number of U.S. troops - and U.S. casualties - in Afghanistan, and helped bomb Libya.  But then, the elder Bush didn't use the Reagan foreign policy either, what with his own invasion of Iraq.