The text authors claim that some foreign policy experts believed that when President Truman constructed the various elements of the containment policy, "his scare tactics did more harm than good." Explain what they mean
Do you agree or disagree with this view? Why?
The harm done by Truman's scare tactics was to oversensitize Americans to the threat of Communism, and to create such an atmosphere of fear and anxiety that it triggered the "paranoid style" in American politics. Truman's oversimplified version of a world of good and evil, us against them, made diplomatic solutions and compromise more difficult.
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