Tom the Exterminator on the Middle East

Ian Murray seamus2001 at attbi.com
Fri Apr 5 13:24:57 PST 2002


----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
> Speaking of which, here's a scary excerpt from Nicholas Lemann's
> April 1 New Yorker piece:


> In his first major foreign-policy speech, delivered in
> >November of 1999, Bush declared that "a President must be a
> >clear-eyed realist," a formulation that seems to connote an absence
> >of world-remaking ambition. "Realism' is exactly the foreign-policy
> >doctrine that Cheney's Pentagon team rejected, partly because it
> >posits the impossibility of any one country's ever dominating world
> >affairs for any length of time.

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See Alexander Wendt's "Anarchy is what States make of it: The Social Construction of Power Politics" [International Organization, (46) 391-425, 1992] for an approach that the Right has been busy appropriating for it's own uses in operationalizing post Waltzian IR theory into neo-imperial policies.

Ian



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