The Power of Arrogance

» BOOKS :-ARTS: MANNERS « The Power of Arrogance EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER

Not content with being the most distinguished, conspicuous American opponent of the policy of saving South Vietnam from Communists, the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in The Arrogance of Power, condemns the whole containment policy as arrogant, danger- ous and unnecessary. He finds it arrogant because nobody has authorized the United States to interfere with the national aspirations of other countries and besides, we lack the necessary power. It is dangerous be- cause of the fear of escalation into nuclear conflict—not an original idea. And it is unnecessary because Communism is just one symptom of an all but worldwide revolution, of whose virtue the Senator has no doubt.

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Edgar Ansel Mowrer

» BOOKS :-ARTS: MANNERS « The Power of Arrogance EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER

Not content with being the most distinguished, conspicuous American opponent of the policy of saving South Vietnam from Communists, the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in The Arrogance of Power, condemns the whole containment policy as arrogant, danger- ous and unnecessary. He finds it arrogant because nobody has authorized the United States to interfere with the national aspirations of other countries and besides, we lack the necessary power. It is dangerous be- cause of the fear of escalation into nuclear conflict—not an original idea. And it is unnecessary because Communism is just one symptom of an all but worldwide revolution, of whose virtue the Senator has no doubt.