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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: ManyMoose who wrote (184619)10/30/2006 4:50:01 PM
From: Neeka  Read Replies (1) of 793843
 
Watched Kagan and Freedman on CSpan 2 last night discussing this book. I don't think Kagan meant it to be a slam on America so much as writing an historical account of what kind of people fashioned the treaties and wrote all of the most important documents that describe who we are, how we live and what we think. For instance...Benjamin Franklin was the most imperialist founders of all. He always advocated taking whole territories and displacing the indigenous people. Kagan agrees that...for the most part......we have not been an imperialist nation. WW1, WW2, Korean War, Vietnam are not examples of imperialist design.

This book starts it out in the 16th century........long before America ever existed.

Kagan believes that Americans have.....for the most part........always been altruistic because we believe that our constitution is "truth." That all of the major wars we've participated in were designed to allow others to "change" so that they too could live democratically under our "truth."

When the subject of Iraq came up, he basically said that right after 9/11 he could have gone anywhere in the US and pick any person off the street, make him president, and that person would rely on the basic foundations of our nation and use them to protect us and go to war if necessary. I believe that to be true since those concepts are all that we have to rely on and to protect us.

He didn't disparage America or Americans during this event, but rather tried to clarify who we are and how we got that way.

He had allot to say about the Civil War, and said that he believes it was the most important event our nation ever faced.

I don't know on which side of the political spectrum he resides?
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