Word: wilsonianism
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...grand sweep of history, Bush's ambition is Wilsonian, motivated by high ideals. He has called for an independent, democratic Palestine, the first American President ever to do so; he has said he wants Iraq to be a model democracy for the Middle East. In his speech to the graduating class at West Point last June, Bush made his case explicitly. "Our nation's cause," he said, "has always been larger than our nation's defense. We fight for a just peace--a peace that favors human liberty. We will defend the peace against threats from terrorists and tyrants...
...have found a natural home in the Bush Administration--it has long been fashionable to deride Wilson as a fuzzy dreamer. In a January 2000 article in Foreign Affairs, Condoleezza Rice, who would become Bush's National Security Adviser, sniffed, with obvious disapproval, that there were "strong echoes" of "Wilsonian thought" in the Clinton Administration...
...learned the noble sport of pigsticking there (we've got pictures of that too). I suspect, however, that his affection for Iraq was a rarity. Britain's attempt to rule there was a disaster. At a time when broad-chested conservative believers in American power and dewy-eyed Wilsonian internationalists contemplate a new imperial adventure in Iraq, it's worth recalling what happened the last time...
According to Mead, the Hamiltonian school supports pragmatic and situational solutions, the Jacksonian school is populist and values military prowess, the Wilsonian school believes in a moral commitment to the rest of the world and the Jeffersonian school favors a limited degree of intervention...
Which is why we will be celebrating Jefferson at the next Library of Congress centenary too. He so embodies America in all its sprawling contradictory greatness: the Wilsonian idealist prepared to engage in ruthless Rooseveltian realism; the worshipper of system, order and science who is given to romance--with France, with revolution, with the American West; the practical inventor and tinkerer, yet endowed with the capacity to compose the most lyrical, most transcendent assertion of human liberty ever penned...