Progressives say they can save US foreign policy from the blob

In a stirring 1967 address in New York City, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. proclaimed the death of the welfare state at the hands of the warfare state. “The promises of the Great Society have been shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam,” King declared. “While the anti-poverty program is cautiously initiated, zealously supervised and required to be an instant success, billions are liberally expended for this ill-considered war. The security we profess to seek in foreign adventures we will lose in our decaying cities.”Nearly six decades later, those who care about peace and dignity for the Americ