/lit/ - Literature

>>7009171
It's not very contrarian. It's eerily similar, though superior to hers

>>7009160
I donno OP. Whyyyy is this guy supposed to be any good?

>>7009176
That's what you think.

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>>3470534
>I don't feel like i'm trying hard, I just listen to the people who recommended books to me.

You're what's wrong with everything.

Paine
Hitchens
Chomsky
Herzen
Arendt
and Buckley

Watch as Buckley's brain fries.

No. Not really. The rightwingers took more from Willy

Whatever the quality of the analysis underlying it, however, Preble's vision of a more modest U.S. foreign policy, which Matlock and Gallarotti share, is destined to be adopted. The United States will do less, perhaps much less, beyond its borders in the next two decades than it has in the last two.

This retrenchment will not come about because the views of the founders have gained currency among the wider U.S. public or as the result of the disappointments and failures of recent U.S. military interventions. The principal cause will be the fiscal condition of the United States. The country will bear the burden of a huge and growing national debt, from three principal sources: the chronic deficits from 2001 to 2008, the very high costs of coping with the financial crisis of 2008 and the recession it dramatically deepened, and, most important, the skyrocketing bill for Social Security and Medicare as the baby-boom generation becomes eligible for these entitlements.

The Bush administration, it is worth noting, was directly responsible for the first of these sources, indirectly responsible for the second, and did nothing to reduce the costs of the third. Under the eyes of eternity, therefore, the greatest damage that the administration will be seen to have inflicted on the United States' position in the world will come not from the Iraq war, about which so much ink has been spilled (including in the three books under review), but rather from its profligate fiscal policies.

>>562132
O RLY?