Word: realpolitiker
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...meet new challenges, like the tough economic competition from Europe and East Asia and the combustible nationalism of a host of small nations. In such a world, none of the past approaches to American policy -- from Woodrow Wilson's global do-goodism to Henry Kissinger's balance-of-power realpolitik -- can be counted on to provide the answers...
...could make a pass at enforcing would meet insuperable resistance from nations with festering internal disputes. So decisions to intervene will continue to be made on a case-by-case basis and, like the U.S. determination not to aid the anti-Saddam rebels, usually for reasons of realpolitik. That is a messy and unsatisfying answer to a pressing question. But then, that is the way wars usually...
...Kissingerian logic which has guided Bush's policy prescribes "striving for an equilibrium between Iraq, Iran, Syria and other regional powers." With reports that Syria has already spent more than one billion coalition dollars on guns, the Iraqi side of the equation may need some shoring up. This Realpolitik would approach farce--if there were not dead bodies everywhere...
...glee as alarm, that Gorbachev is returning to the bad old days of the cold war. That characterization is not just simplistic -- it misses the irony of what is happening. The emerging U.S.-Soviet interplay is in some respects a throwback to the even older days of razzle-dazzle realpolitik, before the era of a global, Manichaean struggle between two ideologies...
...course not. And, So what? Foreign policy is not philanthropy. Any intervention must pass two tests: it must be 1) right and 2) in our interests. Each is a necessary condition. Neither is sufficient. Otherwise, foreign policy degenerates into mindless moralism on the one hand or cynical realpolitik on the other...