The Dreams of Managing History
H.D.S. Greenway, International Herald Tribune, October 23, 2008
At Boston University, Andrew Bacevich railed against what Reinhold Niebuhr dubbed the “dreams of managing history” – the neocon rallying call that blends arrogance and narcissism and states that power is paramount. ++ Expansion worked for the US, for a time. ++ The Vietnam War, however, ended that. ++ Subsequently, “Further efforts at expansionism have led to the squandering of American power” – Iraq being the case in point. ++ Attempts at shaping Islam are fanciful, as that “can only be done by Muslims themselves, in their own due time.”
