Ideology and Power in Foreign Affairs

One always preserves the fears of his youth. Those who grew up in the fifties will never forget McCarthy: when they see a Communist being attacked, they are sure it’s a witch hunt. Some liberals are so obsessed by the specter of John F. Dulles that in their view conflicts of power merely reflect an irrational fear of imagined “Communists.” They do not understand that witches don’t exist while in certain countries Communists do have power. They are so afraid of being &#...