Internationalism or Anti-Imperialism?

"Beneath this internecine party warfare lies a fundamental, and possibly debilitating, ideological divide. Liberals, who tend to view terrorism as the chief foreign policy concern, have been trying to revive the philosophy of internationalism--the belief that US intervention abroad can be noble in intent and beneficial in its results. Leftists, on the other hand, viewing the Iraq War as the most urgent problem, more often subscribe to a philosophy that might be called anti-imperialism--the belief that US intervention abroad is typically avaricious in intent and malign in its results."

In The Boston Globe, David Greenberg lays out the dilemma for the Democratic Party's foreign policy from the 1940s to today. (Spotted by Ghost in the Machine)


Additionally, Michael Tomasky reviews Peter Beinart's The Good Fight in The American Prospect.