It Takes No Courage To Make War,

Boycotts Don't Work. They Work In Certain Isolated Situations, Where You Have Some Potential. But In The Main, The Best Way To Bring About Freedom In A Society Is To Normalize, Have Tourism, Have Trade, Have Contact.

Eisenhower Was A Pretty Peace-oriented President. Truman Was A Pretty Hawkish. I Would Argue, If We Had More Time, I Would Argue Truman Had A Lot To Do With Getting The Cold War Going.

I Happen To Love America. I Love This Freedom And Democracy. The Fact Is We Are The Ones Who Killed Innocent People, Men, Women And Children, In Hiroshima And Nagasaki With Nuclear Weapons, Weapons That Should Have Never Been Used, Should Have Never Been Developed In The First Place, You Know?

The Death Of American Liberalism As A Significant Moral Force Can Be Traced To The Point In When President Bill Clinton Signed Legislation That Effectively Ended The Main Federal Anti-poverty Program And Turned The Fate Of Welfare Recipients, 70 Percent Of Whom Were Children, Over To The Tender Mercies Of The States. With A Stroke Of The Pen, Clinton Eliminated What Remained Of New Deal-era Compassion For The Poor And Codified Into Law The "tough Love" Callousness That His Republican Allies In The Congress, Led By Newt Gingrich, Had Long Embraced.

I Teach At Usc, And It's Obvious To Anyone Who Teaches College Students That They Don't Cover Much Modern History And Certainly Not The Modern Presidency.