Truman Doctrine Quotes

“Feit is dat de ten uitvoerlegging van de Truman doctrine de Verenigde Staten heeft verheven, in een eerste fase, tijdens de Koude Oorlog, tot de politie van West-Europa, in een tweede fase, na de Val van de Muur, tot de politie van de hele wereld, - een politie die aan iedere parlementaire controle ontsnapt. Is dit dan de global power waar George W. Bush en zijn denktanks zo fier over waren?”
― Jean Pierre Van Rossem, Onverwerkt Verleden: De Moord Op Lahaut

“Not all of the New Dealers, it must be said, bought into the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan. For instance, Henry Wallace, the former vice president and secretary of agriculture, who was fired by Truman for disagreeing with the Cold War’s imperatives, referred to the Marshall Plan as the ‘Martial Plan’. He warned against creating a rift with America’s wartime ally, the Soviet Union, and remarked that the conditions attached to the Soviet Union’s invitation to be part of the Marshall Plan were intentionally so designed that Stalin would be obliged to reject them (which, of course, he did). A number of academics of the New Deal generation, among them Paul Sweezy and John Kenneth Galbraith, also rejected Truman’s cold-warrior tactics. However, they were soon to be silenced by the witch-hunt orchestrated by Senator Joseph McCarthy and his House Committee on Un-American Activities.”
― Yanis Varoufakis, The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy