Sunday's NYT allows Republican team player Ross Douthat to extol the virtues of a Republican "hero" who, in today's GOP, would be excoriated as a RINO (Republican in name only). Check it out http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/opinion/sunday/douthat-the-greatness-of-ike.html?_r=1&hp
As a General, Eisenhower had the diplomatic skills to handle the "multi-lateralist" military approach that is so abhorred by the "modern" GOP.
When confronted by Sputnik, Ike engaged the power of the central government in supporting federal science and language educational programs as a matter of national security -- something also abhorred by current GOP dogmatists and theocrats who hold that policies not based on The Bible are, somehow, undermining our future.
But, of course, General Ike notably had the stomach to beat the Nazis, but no stomach to confront Joe McCarthy or "the military-industrial complex" he mentioned in a farewell speech -- the arrangement that is so loved by on-the-take GOP Chicken Hawks and the temporarily silent "Neo-Cons."
Ross's bloviations (and memories) about war have been wrong for ten years, from his opening enthusiasm for the Bush/Cheney/Rove Iraq War to his lack of enthusiasm for Obama's methodology with Libya (something a cautious President Eisenhower might have supported).
Douthat is a team player whose convenient memory of Ike is as fictional as current Republicans' memories of Reagan.
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