It's hard to believe that it's been 27 years since Character of Nations was published. It was my first Angelo Codevilla book and still displayed in my bookcase. May he rest in peace.
Codevilla could not even correlate the Habsburg Empire's attempt to install a monarchy under Ferdinand Maximilian I in Mexico with the American Civil war? Not even after all the changes made to the US government since 1863? When was the Department of JustUS created? Why did so many German speakers and Irish flood the US starting in 1849? Was the California Gold Rush a result of an information operation? Academics tend to be so close to a subject that the larger picture is completely obscured.
HA's article here was for me at least thought-provoking. I'm now ruminating about our US Federal regime: growing ever more policy-rotten since about 1970-75, and bizarrely ideology- rotten since about 2010-12. When is it that we can call that regime defunct? Or has it even become so. If yes, then has it morphed into something else under Trump 02? What do we call it? A "Neo-Constitutionalist" regime? "Quasi-Libertarian Realpolitic" regime?
A great column, thanks. Our international role should reflect who we are as a people, though we obviously don't speak as one on that. Any benevolent role we play should start with our closest neighbors in the Western Hemisphere. There should be no more tyrannies like Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela so near. If we can fly Chinooks into Pakistan, perhaps we should instead liberate our closest neighbors. Both goods and good deeds are scarce.
It's hard to believe that it's been 27 years since Character of Nations was published. It was my first Angelo Codevilla book and still displayed in my bookcase. May he rest in peace.
This is simply lovely in word and thought. Thank you Steve for giving Hadley voice to these ideas.
Codevilla could not even correlate the Habsburg Empire's attempt to install a monarchy under Ferdinand Maximilian I in Mexico with the American Civil war? Not even after all the changes made to the US government since 1863? When was the Department of JustUS created? Why did so many German speakers and Irish flood the US starting in 1849? Was the California Gold Rush a result of an information operation? Academics tend to be so close to a subject that the larger picture is completely obscured.
HA's article here was for me at least thought-provoking. I'm now ruminating about our US Federal regime: growing ever more policy-rotten since about 1970-75, and bizarrely ideology- rotten since about 2010-12. When is it that we can call that regime defunct? Or has it even become so. If yes, then has it morphed into something else under Trump 02? What do we call it? A "Neo-Constitutionalist" regime? "Quasi-Libertarian Realpolitic" regime?
A great column, thanks. Our international role should reflect who we are as a people, though we obviously don't speak as one on that. Any benevolent role we play should start with our closest neighbors in the Western Hemisphere. There should be no more tyrannies like Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela so near. If we can fly Chinooks into Pakistan, perhaps we should instead liberate our closest neighbors. Both goods and good deeds are scarce.