My Mother Is A Fish

Claes G. Ryn writes on the relations betweeen personality types in American society and their counerparts in national foreign-policy. The imperialist as the spoiled brat; against the constitutionalist as what's writ large of the fella with self-imposed moral restraints (on his character).

And more. But not for me to remark on.

An illustrative and forceful quote:


"But 9/11 changed everything, the neo-Jacobins cry. Well, not quite everything. The human condition has not changed. Terrible events do not cancel the need for those personal qualities and social and political structures without which the will to power becomes arbitrary and tyrannical. Unfortunately, 9/11 gave the imperialistic personality another pretext for throwing off restraint."