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"Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy." - John Quincy Adams
Foster was a man who viewed people as ants and countries as ant hills. He conceptualized how he wanted the hill to look. His brother, Allen, the swashbuckling brother, actually messed around with the ant hills.
The Dulles Brothers' adventures reads like a Forrest Gump of mismanaging US foreign policy. The brothers served as courtiers to US business interests through Sullivan and Cromwell and, in a choice that benefited those interests, made the paranoid decision to descend into the security dilemma spiral of the Cold War. They had no conception of "blowback" and because of that, their tale should be a blueprint for anyone trying to make sense of what status-quo news analysts and IR mandarins report on today.
The Brothers' Manichean view of the world would be hilarious if it was not so permanently damaging to American credibility. Their egregious conflicts of interest, mixing business with policy, was an unquestioned and inherited predilection that they got from their Grandpa, who helped overthrow the Hawaiian monarchy and from Wilson, the president who validated their instincts. These were men who sought monsters everywhere. Because of that, as Kinzer points out, they are profoundly American.
La Gloriosa Victoria
Foster was a man who viewed people as ants and countries as ant hills. He conceptualized how he wanted the hill to look. His brother, Allen, the swashbuckling brother, actually messed around with the ant hills.
The Dulles Brothers' adventures reads like a Forrest Gump of mismanaging US foreign policy. The brothers served as courtiers to US business interests through Sullivan and Cromwell and, in a choice that benefited those interests, made the paranoid decision to descend into the security dilemma spiral of the Cold War. They had no conception of "blowback" and because of that, their tale should be a blueprint for anyone trying to make sense of what status-quo news analysts and IR mandarins report on today.
The Brothers' Manichean view of the world would be hilarious if it was not so permanently damaging to American credibility. Their egregious conflicts of interest, mixing business with policy, was an unquestioned and inherited predilection that they got from their Grandpa, who helped overthrow the Hawaiian monarchy and from Wilson, the president who validated their instincts. These were men who sought monsters everywhere. Because of that, as Kinzer points out, they are profoundly American.
La Gloriosa Victoria