The problem with foreign-policy “realism” – the kind that’s always searching for “our sunuvabitch” – is that it’s so damned unrealistic in its calm assurance that the Law of Karma has been repealed, and that therefore what goes around will never, ever come around.
John Burns illustrates from the history of Afghanistan, where Barack Obama has a crappy hand to play because of Ronald Reagan’s “realism” about working with what later got to be called Islamofascists.
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“The enemy of my enemy is my friend,” is simply wrong in so many ways. The correct version, “The enemy of my enemy is a potential ally,” is much less emotionally satisfying, but a better approach.
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“The problem with foreign-policy “realism”… is that it’s so damned unrealistic in its calm assurance that the Law of Karma has been repealed … ” Bingo! Wish I’d said that! Well, I’ve long thought it, but not in such eloquent words. Congratulations, Mr. Kleiman. I hope we shall see this in the Oxford Book of Quotations some day.
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