Comments on: Against Good Intentions

By: James K.A. Smith

James K.A. Smith — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:29:07 +0000

On a quick read of the Bacevich piece: it’s pretty easy to read Pyle as a sort of cautionary exemplar of “earnest” American foreign policy. But I’m not sure Bacevich does justice to Fowler’s ambivalence–his resistance to becoming “engagé”. I’ve wondered if something like such a dis-engagé distance isn’t “faithful,” in a certain way (I can hear the charges of “sectarianism” already…). Indeed, I wondered if what some have decried as the Pope’s “mushiness” in “Caritas in Veritate” isn’t a Fowler-like distance. Not at all sure about this, but musing…

By: James K.A. Smith

James K.A. Smith — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:22:31 +0000

Shit. I have a page of notes in my Moleskin for an article very similar to this (reading “The Quiet American” as a kind of parable of Augustine’s _City of God_). Scooped!

By: Hill

Hill — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:42:57 +0000

Graham Greene is so freaking awesome.