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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
David Brooks: Missing Dean AchesonWe Americans are about to enter our 19th consecutive year of Truman-envy. Ever since the Berlin Wall fell, people have looked at the way Harry Truman, George C. Marshall, Dean Acheson and others created forward-looking global institutions after World War II, and they've asked: Why can't we rally that kind of international cooperation to...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
In a de-centered world, all it takes is a few well-placed parochial interests to bring a global process tumbling down.
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A Second Hand Conjecture (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Zenpundit wishes Robert Gates were running for president. Call it the theorist-technocrat coalition candidate (it might pull a whole tenth of a percentage point). Naturally such a wish is evocative of the folks of an earlier era who wondered why it was that Dean Acheson or Arthur Schlesinger weren’t standing for election. Now as then [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website...
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Doc's Talk (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
Joseph Puder FrontPageMagazine.com | 8/29/2008 Dean Acheson, the American statesman and President Truman’s Secretary of State, was quoted as saying: “No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.” Since the Oslo Accords of 1993, Israeli leaders have sought to appease the Arab-Palestinians with various...
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Seeker Blog (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
... because it undermines the possibility of international consensus. They are fond of citing Dean Acheson, Reinhold Niebuhr and George Kennan as their intellectual forebears, but those gentlemen would have found most of their prescriptions naive. Mr. Acheson, as Harry Truman’s Secretary of State, had nothing but disdain for the United Nations and for most international efforts...
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The Black Kettle (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
By Joseph Puder, FrontPageMagazine.com: Dean Acheson, the American statesman and President Truman’s Secretary of State, was quoted as saying: “No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.” Since the Oslo Accords of 1993, Israeli leaders have sought to appease the Arab-Palestinians with various...
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Urban Onramps (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
... but is now seen as having presided over a golden age in grand strategy—even a kind of genesis, Dean Acheson suggested, when he titled his memoir Present at the Creation. Presidential revisionism tends to begin with small surprises. How, for instance, could a Missouri politician like Truman who never went to college get along so well with a Yale-educated dandy like Acheson?...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
David Brooks, in “Missing Dean Acheson” (column, Aug. 1), correctly diagnoses the pervasive “globosclerosis” that paralyzes decision-making on the international stage, but he brushes over the possible cure, and the cause: United States leadership, and lack of it.
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Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
OP-ED: "Missing Dean Acheson," by David Brooks, New York Times, 1 August 2008, p. A23. A truly awful, almost embarrassing piece from Brooks, who veers from brilliance to boneheadedness faster than any writer out there. Either all net or...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Ever since the Berlin Wall fell, people have looked at the way Harry Truman, George C. Marshall, Dean Acheson and others created forward-looking global institutions after World War II, and they've asked: Why can't we rally that kind of international cooperation to confront terrorism, global warming, nuclear proliferation and the rest of today's problems?
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The Great Seduction (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
... nostalgically about an American dominated post WW2 world in which guys like George C. Marshall, Dean Acheson, W. Averell Harriman and, of course, Harry Truman effectively ran the global show. In contrast with the American-centric certainties of the Truman years, today, Brooks complains, power is dispersed and fragmented. This leads to what he calls "globoschlerosis" in which all it...
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SayUncle (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
... slow, organic and incremental, usually held by conservatives. Obama talks admiringly of men like Dean Acheson, George Kennan and Reinhold Niebuhr, all of whom were imbued with a sense of the limits of idealism and American power to transform the world. “In his view of history, in his respect for tradition, in his skepticism that the world can be changed any way but very, very slowly,...
