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A conversation about U.S. foreign policy and its influence on the world with author and Senior Fellow at the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations Walter Russell Mead.
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robertg 08/28/2010 12:12 AM Report
Just read a short review by Mead of Beinart's book, "The Icarus Syndrome", in which he claims: "Progressives such as John Dewey and Charles Beard had the rare gift of being dogmatic, judgmental, and wrong on almost every major issue in American foreign policy during their lives." Weird claim from a guy who supported the invasion of Iraq for humanitarian reasons! One is tempted, then, to conclude that Mead is an ironist rather than a dogmatist. That temptation goes away when one considers that this "scholar" writes books about the providential nature of American foreign policy. He's certainly a dogmatist then, sounding like a sort of capitalist Trotskyite in his contempt for traditional values.