In the counterfactual vein had ah, we followed say, eisenhauer's intuitions there, and at post 19 forty five, the united states just went back to isolationism. Could that have happened? How might that have played out then? I don't think it would made muchif what happened was getting back to the theme of the book, which is the widespread agreement that war is stupid. There was no danger really, of war, another war in europethat we did theverios.
In this conversation based on his new book, The Stupidity of War, political scientist John Mueller argues that American foreign policy since 1945 has been one long miscue; most international threats — including during the Cold War — have been substantially exaggerated. The result has been agony and bloviation, unnecessary and costly military interventions that have mostly failed. With international war in decline, complacency and appeasement become viable diplomatic devices and a large military is scarcely required.