Conflicts Foreign and Domestic.

From: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and PublicLife | Date: April 1, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

Among my earliest political memories are the debates I had as a young teenager with my father about foreign policy. He was a staunch Midwestern isolationist, a devotee of Senator Robert Taft, while I was a Thomas Dewey/Dwight Eisenhower internationalist. Our disagreements were not just about the present--should Ike or Taft get the 1952 Republican presidential nomination?--but also, and if anything more strongly, about the past.

We went back and forth endlessly as to the wisdom of American participation in both world wars. He insisted that we could and should have remained ...

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