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“no uplifting realist”

September 2, 2014 | Posted in Neo-Imperialism, notes, Political Philosophy, War | Tagged with: Americanism, realism, Wieseltier | 8 Comments ↓

Leon Wieseltier, in “Obama Was Wrong[:] The Era of Humanitarian Intervention Is Not Over”: Barack Obama believed that he could preside over the end of humanitarian intervention, which he called simply war. He was momentously wrong… History, whose course he…

McCarthy’s unusually actually reasonably conservative conservative foreign policy

July 17, 2014 | Posted in International Relations, Neo-Imperialism, notes, Twitterei | Tagged with: Americanism, Conservatism, Hegel, Isolationism, Liberalism, Neo-Conservatism, neo-imperialism, realism, Schmitt, Strauss, Twitter | 2 Comments ↓

Tweets of 2014.07.16

non-ideally realistic is the ideal realism and real idealism etc.

September 6, 2012 | Posted in International Relations, Politics, War | Tagged with: Foreign Policy, Libya, Obama, realism, War | 8 Comments ↓

Realistically, a merely more rather than ideally realistic policy may be as much as is really achievable, and for any realist president will remain the ideal.