1. @artgoldhammer's beautiful memoir of the wise foreign policy analyst Stanley Hoffmann worth pondering:http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122803/stanley-hoffmann-was-one-great-professors-our-time …
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3. Yet unlike his colleagues, Hoffmann opposed Vietnam war. Why? I think Hoffmann's relationship with de Gaulle is the key.
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4 Hoffmann very much admired de Gaullist and was a kind of Gaullist, not so much politically but in outlook.
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5. De Gaulle saw that nationalism was a more potent ideology that communism and that Europe needed to accept decolonization.
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6. When de Gaulle warned the USA about doubling down on Vietnam, many dismissed him as a bitter loser. Hoffmann didn't.
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7. I'm no Hoffmann expert but I think de Gaulle is the key for why his foreign policy thinking was more grounded in reality than colleagues.
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