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...another quote, from Walter Lippmann, strikes closer to the truth: "Ever since Wilson and Roosevelt, the central Republican leadership has been alienated from the intellectual community, and in the years when it backed McCarthy, it in effect declared war on the intellectual community . . . This alienation is the root of the decline of the Republican Party...
...neutralization" policy advanced by Lippmann and Morgenthau, I disagree with your implication that if the U.S. "dismissed" Asia and Africa as "soft regions," then it would be only a matter of time before the U.S. would also consider Europe and the Americas in the same light. The histories of Europe and the Americas have been too closely interconnected with that of the U.S. for it to suddenly chuck the solid ties of friendship and cooperation presently existing among them. Private U.S. investment capital in Europe and the Americas alone would preclude any "dismissal" of these areas as secondary...
...same principle of isolation or, as Mr. Lippmann puts it, "the study of our vital interests," [Jan. 8] that history has blamed for the outbreak of World War II. If we had stepped in when Japan took over Manchuria, if we had said something when Hitler marched into the Rhineland, if we had done something when Hitler was allowed to take the Sudetenland, if, if, if-and now, if we let the Communists take Viet Nam, what will history say about us then...
...years since World War II. At the heart of that debate right now is the suggestion that perhaps the U.S. has overextended itself, that it is trying to do too much, that its power is spread too thin across the world. The notion was recently advanced by Columnist Walter Lippmann, who deplored "scatteration" of U.S. resources and suggested that the U.S. concentrate on the "vital" areas of Europe and the Americas, and more or less ignore Asia and Africa. The notion that it may be in the U.S.'s "self-interest" to retrench crosses both party and ideological lines...
Globalism & Scatteration. As Lippmann sees it, the vital interests of the U.S. are in Europe and the Americas, not in the "soft regions" of Asia and Africa, where the U.S. has been sucked into the power vacuum left behind by the colonial rulers. As a result, "we have scattered our assistance to such a degree that we help everybody a little and nobody enough . . . In this globalism and scatteration we have created enough disappointment and frustration to generate a wave of anti-Americanism . . . Our security and well-being are not involved in Southeast Asia or in Korea and never have...