cynicism reaches into the past

one of those nytimes back in the day articles shows us a president harry truman in the 50s widely expanding the powers of the executive branch and the ability of government to regulate the economy during wartime. do you realize how soon after wwii we actually started drumming about "communist imperialism" and getting in over our heads in korea? and with the compressed timescale of attention deficited modern america, that means afghanistan to iraq to iran all in four years is actually a little slow.