The complete explosion of craziness in the Mideast, and Obama’s inconsistency with longtime allies like Mubarak and the leaders of Bahrain (where the US has a large military presence), suggests he’s torn. But he’s torn between two equally ineffective “idealistic” approaches to foreign policy. On one hand, he is like George W. Bush and supports [...]
Posts Tagged ‘realism’
On The Lack of Realism
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Egypt, foreign policy, Idealism, Interventionism, Mideast, Military, realism on 23 Feb 2011 | 2 Comments »
Obama’s Quest for Global Popularity
Posted in foreign policy, Latin America, obama, tagged Arms Control, Bush, Chavez, cold war, Europe, Military, North Korea, Nuclear Freeze, Nuclear Weapons, Ortega, Panama, realism on 20 Apr 2009 | 7 Comments »
Obama’s noises about abandoning nuclear weapons, his release of torture memos, and his sucking up to Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega, and Cuba at the Summit of the Americas all have the same source: his belief that the U.S’s disproportionate strength, global perceptions of our arrogance, and our shoddy record all combine to make the rest [...]
Hillary’s Foreign Policy
Posted in Election, foreign policy, Hillary Clinton, tagged al qaeda, Anti-Terrorism, China, Counter-Terrorism, Foreign Affiars, foreign policy, George Bush, GWB, Hillary Clinton, Idealism, Iran, Iraq, iraq war, Israel, Jimmy Carter, Kissinger, North Korea, Nuclear Proliferation, obama, President Clinton, realism, Russia, Terrorism on 21 Oct 2007 | 10 Comments »
If Obama’s foreign policy is sometimes incoherent, Hillary’s is simply Bush-lite. Her recent essay in Foreign Affairs reveals herself as someone who does not depart substantially from the globalist paradigm of Bush and President Clinton, with the main difference being her greater faith in “diplomacy.” In a world where many nations’ interests involve knocking America down in [...]
Krauthammer’s Razor
Posted in Armenian Genocide, foreign policy, Pelosi, tagged Armenia, Ethics, foreign policy, Fukuyama, Genocide, History, Idealism, Israel, Krauthammer, National Interest, Neoconservatives, Occam's Razor, Pelosi, Philosophy, Public Interest, realism, ron paul, Turkey, Turks, Washington DC on 19 Oct 2007 | 5 Comments »
While I don’t always agree with him, I do think Charles Krauthammer is one of the most articulate observers of foreign policy and often makes a great deal of sense, particularly when he’s adhering to realism and not getting distracted by his monomania on certain Near Eastern countries. His discussion of why the Democrats persisted [...]
Senator Lieberman On the Warpath
Posted in foreign policy, Neoconservatives, Politics, tagged bosnia, Burma, east timor, foreign policy, haiti, holocaust, korea, kosovo, lebanon, liberal foreign policy, lieberman, Neoconservatives, realism, Vietnam on 3 Oct 2007 | 1 Comment »
Senator Joseph Lieberman writes today that we should get in the face of India, Russia, and China and shame them into reigning in Burma, with whom all three nations have good relations. And people think Bush is making America enemies around the world! This is typical of the Democrats’ post-cold-war foreign policy: the cause must [...]
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