President Obama's Muse?

Tuesday 22 December 2009

by: Melvin A. Goodman, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

(Image: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: Barack Obama)

"Since last week's Nobel Prize ceremony, Reinhold Niebuhr, the most influential American theologian of the 20th century, has been given insufficient attention from the mainstream media.

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"Niebuhr warned against the "dangerous dreams of managing history." There is probably no better example of the global powers trying to manage history than Afghanistan, home of the "Great Game," where Alexander the Great, Queen Victoria, Leonid Brezhnev and, now, Barack Obama have tried to manage the ethnic and tribal communities of this region."