The 48ers

The American Prospect has an article (available on-line) worth reading. Michael Tomasky wonders what our current situation would be like if we had some of the players in Washington now who addressed the rising threat of communism back in 1948. He writes:

"If we had had Truman and Acheson’s equivalents in the White House and at Foggy Bottom since September 11, there’s no doubt in my mind that we’d be witnessing a great effort -- flawed, perhaps containing seeds of future tragedies, but great nevertheless -- to roll back terrorism, to strike at its training camps, to surround it and isolate its sponsors diplomatically, and to try to neutralize its popularity by understanding its causes and offering decent Muslim people an alternative. We would not -- absolutely not -- have seen a war in Iraq."