Where are the realists?
Spengler calls for a realist foreign policy:
"Unlikely as it sounds, there is no "realist" school of foreign policy at work in Washington, just the idiot twins of idealism and the majority-rule fantasists. Gates seems capable of realism, at least when the intelligence reports smack him in the face like a dead mackerel. No one in Washington seems to ask the obvious questions:
"Unlikely as it sounds, there is no "realist" school of foreign policy at work in Washington, just the idiot twins of idealism and the majority-rule fantasists. Gates seems capable of realism, at least when the intelligence reports smack him in the face like a dead mackerel. No one in Washington seems to ask the obvious questions:
- Which countries are inherently friendly, which are inherently hostile, and which are neither friendly nor hostile, but merely self-interested?
- Which countries are viable partners over a given time horizon, and which are beyond viability?
- Where can we solve problems, and where must we resign ourselves to contain them at best?
- Where can we make agreements in mutual self-interest, and where is it impossible to make agreements of any kind?
- What issues affect American national security in so urgent a fashion that we should employ force if required?"
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