Yale delivers Donald Kagan's eulogy. For historians, Kagan is best known for his work on the Pelopponesian War. The one book of his I read (the first few chapters of) was about Thucydides as revisionist-historian [UPDATE 2/2/22: now finished].
His son Robert is a "neocon" who opposed Trump; a McCain-Romney man. This apple did not roll from the tree: Donald, also, supported the Iraq intervention. In fact his support was touted by the neocon blogs over 2002 - influencing people like me, to my regret.
I cannot recall how Kagan applied the Pelopponesian War to American adventurism abroad. I recall that he did do so. Since his conclusion was wrong, I assume his argumentation was flawed.
All I can say here is, Donald Kagan goes to judgement.
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