Volume 8, Number 6 · April 6, 1967
Time for a Change
By Hans J. Morgenthau
Responsibility and Response
by Maxwell D. Taylor
Harper & Row, 84 pp., $3.50
The Arrogance of Power
by Senator J. William Fulbright
Random House, 264 pp., $4.95
It is hardly a sensational discovery that the foreign policy of the United States is in urgent need of radical rethinking. We have been living off the capital of the great innovations—containment, the Marshall Plan, and the Truman Doctrine—which, in the Spring of 1947, transformed American policy. These policies were appropriate to the challenges they were intended to meet, and they succeeded. Yet the political world has changed almost beyond recognition during the last two decades. To think and act in 1967 as though we were still living in 1947 is at best useless, and at worst fraught with great risks. Our modes of thought and action must be brought into harmony with the new objective conditions of the world: we must come to terms with our allies, with the Communist world, with the uncommitted third of the world. with nuclear power, and, finally and most importantly, with ourselves.
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