Jonathan Rauch has a overdue piece at Reason, worth reading only to understand that at some point in American history, we had presidents who lived in a fantasy free environment. Oh to be a fly on the wall during this:
"Kennedy was no revolutionary in foreign policy. Indeed, he was contempuous of idealistic reformers. Meeting on August 20, 1962, with his senior foreign-policy advisers, he read from a draft document describing a national counterinsurgency strategy. The United States, said Kennedy, reading aloud, seeks "to insure that modernization of the local society evolves in directions which will afford a congenial world environment for fruitful international cooperation and..for our way of life."
Kennedy's comment: "That's a lot of crap."
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