A conversation about the future of U.S. foreign policy with Jessica Mathews

with Jessica Mathews
in Current Affairs
on Thursday, March 29, 2007 * * * * *

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A conversation about the future of U.S. foreign policy with Jessica Mathews, President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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    1. JohnGelles  03/09/2011 02:31 PM Report

      What a difference a day makes !

      The conversation with David Brooks promoted his book -- and nothing much more. It was too remote from current issues to get the juices in the audience flowing -- although we do need to improve our daily interactions with family, friends and books.

      Today Libya and human economic rights (especially woman's role in business, politics and war (winning or avoidance) was presented in all its concrete splendor.

      Jessica Mathews made the best of an argument that I vehemently reject -- as did others on the show. We have no alternative NOW but to see Qaddafi and son out of there -- with all of their money or none. If Obama drops this ball, and allows another defeat of modern man in the face of easily conquered evil, he will deserve defeat and he will certainly get it.

      I am a special fan of Tina Brown. And CR put women's issues up here as part of the democratic movement ignited by the self-immolation of a Tunisian heroic martyr only a month ago.

      The elephant not yet firmly seated at the table, in all these CR discussions, is FDR's Second Bill of [Economic] Rights. FDR knew and told us emphatically that poverty and unemployment would lie at the root of future dictatorships. If the century after VICTORY over Hitler and Hirohito did not see full employment and fair business practice it would see one war after another.

      If we do usher in an era of fully financed liberty and innovative science and business then we may conquer war if we're lucky. If we are not lucky, we may see that David Brooks and CR were right -- and we have to discover more of the diseases of the brain: because, if every nation succeeded in achieving liberty and wealth for the every person, deserving of it humanity's sake, and still we went to war, the reasons would be beyond our notions of political economy gained ahead of knowing the molecular ingredients of good and bad ideas.

      I've yet to do my income tax return for 2010. So I have to desert CR until I do.

      ..... (The current IR code is absolute proof of the insanity of the USA. If we cannot repeal it, in favor of a proper VAT (that taxes only the very rich and certainly not the poor), we will never make progress in the BIG way many believe we should.

    2. binoj joseph matthew  04/29/2007 02:10 AM Report

      Ms. Matthews' intellect and ability to articulate her views with such grace and poise is such a treat. Thanks Mr. Rose...can't wait for you to have her back. Cheers!