Hi John,

Anne forwarded your email to me.  Here are my answers to your questions.

The "peace movement" has always been a scattered collection of different 
groups, usually categorized into three or four groupings (pacifists, 
anti-imperialists, liberal internationalists, and others), that come
together 
at various times to protest a policy.  There is rarely agreement on
anything 
beyond immediate oppostion to a right-wing/militaristic policy or war. 
I 
don't think that government invented the peace movement.  The first
national 
peace society was established in 1828.  I have never heard of Robert
Kagan.  

However, there are a variety of conservative criticisms of American
foreign 
policy as well as liberal-left criticisms.  Henry Kissinger was the
architect 
par excellence of the balance of power approach to foreign policy, 
negotiating with the "evil empires" of the USSR and China at a time when
the 
U.S. was fighting a war to stop communism from spreading.  He was
reviled by 
the hard-right militaristic New Right, later led by R. Reagan.  These
balance 
of power, real politik conservatives tend to complain about unspecified, 
hyper-extended military commitments abroad, sought by the ideological, 
superpatriot right.  They argue that America's resources will become 
exhausted and overextended.  They seek global hegemony, but recognize
that 
this must be carefully crafted and not jeopardized by an indiscriminate
war 
against all "evil" nations.  These real politic foreign policy
conservatives 
are sometimes joined by fiscal conservatives who recognize that the 
government can't cut taxes and raise military spending at the same time. 
The 
latter appear to be mute today, however.

Well, that's my assessment.  Hope that you and Deborah and the kids are
doing 
well. . . . and that Jonah's leg is healing.        

-- Roger