{"id":48,"date":"2011-07-08T07:59:25","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T11:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2011-07-12T16:26:20","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T20:26:20","slug":"quote-for-the-day-us-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/08\/quote-for-the-day-us-foreign-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the Day: US Foreign Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">One reaction among liberals to the Bush years and to Iraq was to retreat from \u201cidealism\u201d toward \u201crealism,\u201d in which the United States would act cautiously and, above all, according to national interest rather than moral imperatives. The debate is rooted in the country&#8217;s early history. American, John Quincy Adams argued, \u201cdoes not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all,\u201d but the \u201cchampion and vindicator only of her own.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"> <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000080; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">In 1966, Adam&#8217;s words were repeated by George Kennan, perhaps the most articulate realist of the twentieth century, in opposing the Vietnam War. To Kennan and his intellectual followers, foreign-policy problems are always more complicated than Americans, in their native idealism, usually allow. The use of force to stop human-rights abuses or to promote democracy, they argue, usually ends poorly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><em>From the May 2, 2011 issue of The New Yorker, page 44, in an article by Ryan Lizza.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One reaction among liberals to the Bush years and to Iraq was to retreat from \u201cidealism\u201d toward \u201crealism,\u201d in which the United States would act cautiously and, above all, according to national interest rather than moral imperatives. The debate is rooted in the country&#8217;s early history. American, John Quincy Adams argued, \u201cdoes not go abroad &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/08\/quote-for-the-day-us-foreign-policy\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}