Saturday, 19. March 2011
Topic: War and Peace News - on March 19, 2011 at 10:30:00 AM CET
The Myth of the Useful Dictator
In a recent column mocking the argument for a military intervention in Libya, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd cited John Quincy Adams's famous dictum that the United States "goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy." Foreign-policy realists count Adams as their founding father; like him, they view American meddling in the internal struggles of faraway places as a species of national folly.
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