Comments on: Realist Vlogging http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/11/12/realist-vlogging/ n. the principle of good order<br /><br /> "Observe the strange inversion of all order and sense! Dignity debased; how vilely is the function of a consul prostituted!" ~The Craftsman Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:15:32 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Mark Moore http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/11/12/realist-vlogging/comment-page-1/#comment-18210 Mark Moore Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:51:34 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/?p=7573#comment-18210 One of my other favorite bloggers had some recent observations on Bacevich's thinking, Niebuhr, and American foreign policy. http://rmadisonj.blogspot.com/2008/08/power-observed-adams-always-thinks-it.html One of my other favorite bloggers had some recent observations on Bacevich’s thinking, Niebuhr, and American foreign policy.

http://rmadisonj.blogspot.com/2008/08/power-observed-adams-always-thinks-it.html

]]> By: jetan http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/11/12/realist-vlogging/comment-page-1/#comment-18181 jetan Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:10:35 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/?p=7573#comment-18181 This is an excellent Bacevich essay and has much that the liberal spectrum could also agree with. It is gratifying to read someone who recognizes the profound and enduring economic distortions introduced by the Vietnam conflict. I look forward to reading the book, as the article merely glances on many topics that require amplification. A lot of this ground has already been explored by Paul Kennedy in his wonderful (in my opinion) book The Rise and Fall Of The Great Powers. For the last several years it has been fashionable among the neocons to deride Kennedy since the "fall" of the United States did not happen ten minutes after the book was published, even though the scope of the book is in decades and centuries. I think a new edition would be a good idea right now, though. This is an excellent Bacevich essay and has much that the liberal spectrum could also agree with. It is gratifying to read someone who recognizes the profound and enduring economic distortions introduced by the Vietnam conflict. I look forward to reading the book, as the article merely glances on many topics that require amplification.

A lot of this ground has already been explored by Paul Kennedy in his wonderful (in my opinion) book The Rise and Fall Of The Great Powers. For the last several years it has been fashionable among the neocons to deride Kennedy since the “fall” of the United States did not happen ten minutes after the book was published, even though the scope of the book is in decades and centuries. I think a new edition would be a good idea right now, though.

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